caret2026Shortlisted for Fractured Lit Fractured and Fused Prize.
Awarded Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers' Room Residency at the Seattle Public Library.
Wrote articles for Piltover Archive.

caret2025Elected as Vice President on the Board of Directors for Seattle City of Literature.
Awarded scholarship to attend Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference.
Awarded scholarship to attend Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
Awarded scholarship to attend New York Writers Workshop in Greece.
Served on Program Advisory Committee for BS programs in Computer Science and Game Design at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Graduated from NYU Creative Writing Program with an MFA in Creative Writing (thesis advised by Jeffrey Eugenides).
Read for Best of the Net anthology.
Wrote content marketing for iQuanti.

caret2024Served as Fiction Editor of Washington Square Review, curating stories for Issues 51 and 52.
Edited content marketing for Toptal's engineering blog.

caret2023Longlisted for A Public Space Writing Fellowship.
Taught undergraduate course "Introduction to Creative Writing" as adjunct professor in the English Department at NYU.
Served as Books Editor of Washington Square Review, curating content for Online Exclusives.
Awarded NYU GSAS Master's College Research Grant.
Awarded NYU Dean's Conference Fund.
Taught private piano lessons.
Edited college admissions essays.

caret2022Published debut short story in Catapult.
Semi-finalist in Sewanee Review fiction contest.
Read for One Story.
Awarded scholarship to attend NYU Creative Writing Program.
Attended Tin House Workshop.
Attended Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Left Microsoft.

caret2020Developed a talk about the Asian American experience and presented internationally to over 1,000 attendees, during the rise of anti-Asian sentiment.

caret2018Won BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) cutting-edge technology showcase with Bananagrams AI solver.
Attended Game Developers Conference (GDC) as an International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Scholar and Girls Make Games Scholar.
Started working at Microsoft on Xbox Game Pass subscription and apps.
Direkt, an addictive action puzzler, published on Kongregate and Newgrounds.

caret2017Won Riot Games Hackathon with League of Legends immersive theater VR simulation.
Awarded International Women's Day Leadership Award.
Streamed gameplay on Twitch with over 2,200 followers and 100 concurrent viewers.
Fara Heim, a narrative puzzle platformer, demoed at Cornell GDIAC Showcase.