CREATIVE NONFICTION
"Touch: A transcription," Nonwhite and Woman, an Anthology of BIPOC Women Writers, Woodhall Press, forthcoming
"Dear Sosobo," Brick, December 2021
"Vernon on the water," PANK Magazine, Environmental Futures Folio, April 2021
"Living that van life before it was a hashtag," Lit Hub, January 2021
"Van Life," Brick, December 2020, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
JOURNALISM
"Hungry for Justice: How the Police-Involved Killing of a Hmong American in Rural California Sparked a Movement," Eastwind Magazine, July 28, 2021
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2022-23 Steinbeck Fellow
2022 Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship
2022 Nominee, Best American Essays
2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship
2021 Nominee, Pushcart Prize
2018 Yefe Nof California Residency, Lake Arrowhead, CA
2003 Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, WA
1999 Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
1999 Phelan Literary Award, San Francisco, CA
1999 Semi-finalist, Heekin Award in the Novel
COMMUNITY/ARTS ACTIVITIES
2021 Media Relations Director, Justice for Siskiyou, Yreka, CA
2019 Media Relations Director, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee, San Antonio, TX
2018-21 Founding member, JA Writing Project, San Francisco, CA
2018-19 Member, INFUSION Hybrid Arts Project, Emeryville, CA
2017-20 Board of Directors, East Palo Alto Center for Community Media
2017-18 Marketing Advisor, Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA
2015-17 Outreach Co-chair, San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Community Advisory Committee
EDITORIAL
1999-2000 Shankpainter Review, Provincetown, MA, Fiction Editor
1998-1999 Fourteen Hills Literary Journal, San Francisco, CA, Fiction Editor
\\VIDEO: Brick 106 launch reading with Robert Hass, Kevin Adonis Browne, Chimwemwe Undi, Amanda Mei Kim, and Terese Mason Pierre\\
"Touch: A transcription," Nonwhite and Woman, an Anthology of BIPOC Women Writers, Woodhall Press, forthcoming
"Dear Sosobo," Brick, December 2021
"Vernon on the water," PANK Magazine, Environmental Futures Folio, April 2021
"Living that van life before it was a hashtag," Lit Hub, January 2021
"Van Life," Brick, December 2020, nominated for a Pushcart Prize
JOURNALISM
"Hungry for Justice: How the Police-Involved Killing of a Hmong American in Rural California Sparked a Movement," Eastwind Magazine, July 28, 2021
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2022-23 Steinbeck Fellow
2022 Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellowship
2022 Nominee, Best American Essays
2021 California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellowship
2021 Nominee, Pushcart Prize
2018 Yefe Nof California Residency, Lake Arrowhead, CA
2003 Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, WA
1999 Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA
1999 Phelan Literary Award, San Francisco, CA
1999 Semi-finalist, Heekin Award in the Novel
COMMUNITY/ARTS ACTIVITIES
2021 Media Relations Director, Justice for Siskiyou, Yreka, CA
2019 Media Relations Director, Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee, San Antonio, TX
2018-21 Founding member, JA Writing Project, San Francisco, CA
2018-19 Member, INFUSION Hybrid Arts Project, Emeryville, CA
2017-20 Board of Directors, East Palo Alto Center for Community Media
2017-18 Marketing Advisor, Hack the Hood, Oakland, CA
2015-17 Outreach Co-chair, San Mateo County Sea Level Rise Community Advisory Committee
EDITORIAL
1999-2000 Shankpainter Review, Provincetown, MA, Fiction Editor
1998-1999 Fourteen Hills Literary Journal, San Francisco, CA, Fiction Editor
\\VIDEO: Brick 106 launch reading with Robert Hass, Kevin Adonis Browne, Chimwemwe Undi, Amanda Mei Kim, and Terese Mason Pierre\\