Writing

ESSAYS

  • Finding Home,” Maine Magazine, Jan/Feb 2023
  • Listen, and You Will Hear Pain Speak,” First Person Singular, December 28, 2022
  • #tinytruthCreative Nonfiction, iss. 77, Spring 2022
  • “Things We Keep Hidden,” Passages North, iss. 43, Spring 2022
  • Sorry, Dada,” Creative Nonfiction, iss. 74, Winter 2021
  • “What Getting Divorced in my 20s Taught Me About Relationships,” Cosmopolitan, 8 May 2015 (re-printed in Good Housekeeping, 11 May 2015; and Redbook, 19 May 2015)

FICTION

JOURNALISM/BLOGGING

AWARDS

  • Workshop Fellow, Key West Literary Seminar, 2026
  • Semi-finalist, GrubStreet Emerging Writer Fellowship, 2025
  • Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, March 2025
  • Ilgenfritz Scholarship, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, 2025
  • Finalist, Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, 2025
  • Semi-finalist, Atria Books’ “Books Like Us” Contest, 2024
  • Finalist, Maine Chapbook Series for Nonfiction, 2024
  • Maine Lit Fest Fellow, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, 2024
  • Plympton Fellow, Writing Downtown residency, March 2024
  • Winner, Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s “Pages in Progress” Contest, 2023
  • Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, 2023
  • Monson Arts Residency, March-April 2023
  • Spe Futura Artis Scholarship, Antioch University, 2022-2024
  • Dibner Fellow, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, 2022
  • Pitch Wars alum, 2021
  • Ashley Bryan Fellow, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, 2021-2025
  • Finalist, Marianne Russo Award for a novel-in-progress, 2022 and 2023
  • PITCH Fellow, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, 2021
  • Tin House Scholar, 2021