Writer.
As a nonfiction writer, I’m drawn to hybrid modes of expression—memoir, personal narrative, polemic, literary criticism, reportage, cultural criticism, and legal commentary. My writing explores intersectional identities through an interdisciplinary lens.
Sample works.
Short memoir: Thirteen Ways of Interrogating an Incident (Fish Publishing 2022), First Place Winner of the 2022 Fish Short Memoir Prize, Shortlisted for CRAFT Literary’s 2022 Hybrid Writing Prize; Personal essays: Fortune House (Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2025), a Top Prize Winner of Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Awards, Shortlisted for Globe Soup’s 2022 Short Memoir Prize; I Sit and Look Out; Book reviews: Ocean Vuong's Time is a Mother, Only Yanagihara's To Paradise, and Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings ; Law review articles: Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and Columbia Business Law Review; op-ed: Hong Kong Lawyer; Legal commentary: Law in Transition; Reportage: AAWW’s The Margins.
Awards.
Overall Winner, Fish Short Memoir Prize.
Third Place Winner, Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Award.
Honorable Mention, CRAFT Literary’s Hybrid Writing Prize.
Open City Fellowship, Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW).
Lenfest Fellowship, Columbia University School of the Arts.
