Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing

University of California, Santa Cruz

2017 — 2024

I work on contemporary 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.​

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Fiction Editor

FENCE Magazine

2022 — ongoing

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Fiction Workshop Instructor

Small Press Traffic

2023 — 2024

Anti-Narrative Arcs: Experimental Fiction

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Calculus Instructor at San Quentin State Prison

Mount Tamalpais College

2020 — 2022​

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Poetry Artist-in-Residence

Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts 

Fall 2020 — Spring 2022 ​​

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Fiction Mentor 

Asian Prisoner Support Committee 

2019 — 2020​​​​

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Editorial Intern

Asian American Writers Workshop

Summer 2016​

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Editorial Work Scholar

Aperture Foundation

Summer 2016​

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B.S. in Mathematics 

Tufts University

2012 — 2016