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Doctoral Student, concentration in Creative Writing

Education

M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Pedagogy/Nonfiction from Miami University, 2021

• Thesis: You and Me, Always

B.A. in English, Creative Writing Concentration from The University of North Texas, 2018

• Minor: Japanese
• Certificates: Japanese Language Certificate, Technical Writing Certificate

Research & Scholarly Interests

• Experimental forms
• Memoir and personal essay
• Diaspora studies
• Asian American literature

Publications

ā€œClosing the Distance.ā€ The Essay Form(s). Edited by Jill Talbot. Columbia University Press, 2024.

ā€œFrom Muscle Memory: A CĆ  Ri GĆ  Recipe.ā€ Hive Avenue Literary Journal. Issue 7. May 2023.

ā€œ.ā€ GASHER. Fall 2022 Issue. November 2022. 

ā€œ.ā€ The Citron Review. Spring 2022 Issue. 21 March 2022. 

ā€œ.ā€ Emerald City Literary Magazine. Issue 3. May 2021. 

ā€œK±š²Ō“Ē±č³ó“Ē²ś¾±²¹.ā€ Bat City Review. Issue 17. May 2021. 

ā€œ.ā€ Hippocampus. July 2020. 

ā€œThanks for the Invalidation.ā€ peculiar. Issue 7. November 2019. 

Awards

Betty Jane Abrahams Memorial Poetry Prize Runner-up, May 2021

Jordan-Goodman Graduate Award in Creative Nonfiction, April 2020

Japan-America Society of Houston Shintech-Kanagawa Fund Scholarship: 1^st place in the 29^th Annual Texas State Japanese Speech Contest at Rice University, March 2018