Ph.D. candidate in Literature
University of California, Santa Cruz
2017 — ongoing
My research interests include contemporary American poetics, Asian American literature, and Marxist literary criticism. My dissertation mentors are Chris Chen, Karen Tei Yamashita, Chris Connery, and Ronaldo V. Wilson. Recipient of a THI Dissertation Completion Scholarship in 2022.
Fiction Editor
FENCE Magazine
2022 — ongoing
Generative Workshop Instructor
Small Press Traffic
Spring 2023
Anti-Narrative Arcs: Experimental Fiction
Calculus Instructor at San Quentin State Prison
Mount Tamalpais College
2020 — 2022
Flash Fiction Judge for the Black Warrior Review Prize
Black Warrior Review
Fall 2022
Poetry Artist-in-Residence + Senior Thesis Advisor
Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
Fall 2020 — Spring 2022
Fiction Judge for the Surging Tide Summer Contest
Surging Tide Magazine
Summer 2022
First Reader for the Nightboat Poetry Prize
Nightboat Books
2021
Judge for the Short Fiction Contest
Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference
2021 — 2022
USC / LARB Publishing Workshop Fellow
Los Angeles Review of Books
Summer 2019
Summer Fiction Mentor
The Adroit Journal
2019 — 2020
Fiction Mentor
Asian Prisoner Support Committee
2019 — 2020
Reader for the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize
Feminist Press
2019 — 2020
Fiction Fellow
Kundiman
Summer 2018
Editorial Intern
Asian American Writers Workshop
Summer 2016
Editorial Work Scholar
Aperture Foundation
Summer 2016
BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
Tufts University
2012 — 2016
Minor in English Literature and Creative Writing. Editor-in-chief of the Tufts Canon Literary Journal.