Publications
Poems
2023
Essay on distance, Soft Spot | Grist Literary Journal
Running into old love at a mutual friend's wedding, Aperture Blues | Sandy River Review
2022
Hail | The Cortland Review
Artemis contemplates the catcall | Blue Earth Review
Strange Ritual | Smartish Pace
Bless your soup | The American Poetry Review
The most Taiwanese thing about me | Hayden's Ferry Review
2021
Taipei | diode poetry journal
why I don't sing in public | Burningword Literary Journal
Split | Madcap Review
Body as a second language | Inscape
2020
Rahul, when I ask him to throw away his broken office chair for the 50th time this week | Underblong
Things inherited from my mother* | Placeholder
One day when I become a museum*,** | Okay Donkey
Elegy for Jane**, A History of Winter*** | Gingerbread House
Proposal for quantifying the entire spectrum of human emotion | Grey Sparrow
in the absence of sesame oil | The Scores
Mom's makeup* | Dryland
Titles from my childhood | K'in
San Rafael with an unrequited love | The Chestnut Review
2017 - 2019
Shedding | STANFORD Magazine
Migration Story | RABBIT: Belonging Issue
2016
Revolution, Saturday Chinese School | Stanford Daily Magazine
how it ends | Leland Quarterly
I tried to sell your heart on etsy once | Off the Coast
Harbor | decomP Magazine
2015
The Will | The Best Teen Writing of 2015
leaving song | Leland Quarterly
2014
Four Poems | The Legendary
Maya Angelou | Radius
*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
**Nominated for Best New Poets
***Nominated for Best of the Net
Awards
2023
Discovery Poetry Contest, Semifinalist, 92NY
2022
Beullah Rose Prize, Finalist, Smartish Pace
Top 50 Very Short Fictions, Longlist, Wigleaf
Poetry Contest, Runner-up, Hayden's Ferry Review
New Voices Contest, Longlist, Frontier Poetry
Award in Poetry, Finalist, Iowa Review
Vella Chapbook Prize, Winner, Paper Nautilus Pres
Vallum Chapbook Award, Finalist, Vallum
Open Country Press Chapbook Contest, Finalist, Open Country Press
Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize, First Place, Stanford University
Undergraduate Performing/Fine Arts Award, Stanford Asian American Awards
Undergraduate Poetry Competition- Runner Up, National Federation of State Poetry Societies
Wiley Birkhofer Prize in Poetry, Stanford University
Poetry Out Loud Finalist, Stanford University
2016
National Gold Medals in Poetry and Critical Essay, Scholastic Art and Writing
Anthology Publications
2023
Best New Poets (Selected)
We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word (Selected)
2021
Best of the Net (Nominated)
Best New Poets (Nominated)
2020
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (Nominated)
2015
Best Teen Writing of 2015 (Selected)
Poet Features
2021
Featured Artist - Dryland LA: Futures Now
2019
Featured Artist - Conversations in Identity
Featured Artist - Asian Images
Featured Artist - Stanford Arts Extravaganza
2018
Featured Artist - Listen to the Silence Conference
Showcase Artist - APAture, Kearny Street
2016
Featured Artist - Inclusive Lands, Peninsula DIY
Featured Artist - Listen to the Silence Conference
Fellowships and Grants
2020
Unlock Her Potential Mentorship Program, with Pagan Kennedy
2017
Levinthal Tutorial with Edgar Kunz, Stanford University
2016
Mash up Art Grant, Stanford University