Education

M.F.A., Creative Writing (Prose), University of Massachusetts Amherst
September 2023—May 2026 (expected)

M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
September 2021—September 2023

B.A., English and History, University of Illinois Springfield
August 2017—May 2021

Fellowships and Awards

Emerging Critics Fellow, 2025-2026, National Book Critics Circle

Art Sustainability Activism Fellowship, 2025, MFA for Poets and Writers, University of Massachusetts Amherst

James W. Foley Memorial Award, 2025, MFA for Poets and Writers, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship, 2023-2026, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Workshops

Methods Symposium, English Department, UMass Amherst
Participant in the Critical Geographies workshop
November 2024

Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, CA (Fiction)
Recipient of Pietsch Family Scholarship
July 2024

Immigrant Writers’ Workshop (Fiction)
Led by Karolina Letunova and Nishanth Injam, Zell Postgraduate Fellows in Creative Writing at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan
April 2021

Teaching

Teaching Associate, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Instructor of Record)

Writing Program: College Writing (Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

English: Introduction to Creative Writing (Winter 2025); Reading Fiction: Asian American Women’s War Writing (Fall 2024)

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Comparative Literature: Introduction to Film Analysis (Fall 2021); Introduction to Graphic Novel (Spring 2022, Spring 2023); War Stories (Fall 2022)

Communication: History of Film I (Fall 2022)

Experience

Juniper Institutes, UMass Amherst
Assistant Director (June 2024—); formerly Program Assistant (July 2023-May 2024)

University of Massachusetts Press
Reader for Juniper Prize in Nonfiction (Fall 2024)
Reader for Juniper Prize in Fiction (Fall 2025)

Five College Poetry and Prose Prize, Five Colleges Inc.
Judge in Prose (2025-2026)

Massachusetts Review
Reader, Prose (Fall 2023)

Massachusetts Center for the Book
Screener for Letters about Literature (February 2024)

MAP Fund
Grant Application Reviewer in Theatre (June 2022-August 2022)

Liminal Transit Review
Founder and Editor (June 2020—present)