Overview
I am a writer, educator, and editor based in New York City.
As a fiction editor, I offer developmental and copy editing services for short stories and full-length manuscripts, specializing in works geared toward the speculative and experimental. Throughout our collaboration, I will provide extensive feedback on your work, including suggestions for plot improvements, character development, pacing, and more.
As a writer, I am currently represented by Michael Mungiello at Inkwell Management. My debut short story collection, Vague Predictions & Prophecies, is forthcoming August 2024 from CLASH Books. My novella FUNERAL, co-authored with Vi Khi Nao, was published by KERNPUNKT Press in Jan. 2023. My short stories and poems have been published in a number of literary journals and magazines, including Joyland Magazine, Hobart After Dark, The Nervous Breakdown, The Asian American Literary Review, and more.
I’m looking to work with writers who aren’t afraid to break the rules—bending genres, building different worlds, and seeking out complex truths.
Services
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Languages
Awards
- Winner of the Sine Theta Summer 2022 Writing Contest - Fiction
- Longlisted for Wigleaf's "Top Very Short Fictions of 2022"
- 2021 New York City Artist Corps Grant Recipient
- Second-place Winner of the Los Suelos “Pets Pets PETS!!!” Contest 2022
Certifications
- MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington
- BA in English Literature and Language from Winthrop University
Work experience
BetterSleep
I provide developmental and copy edits, as well as proofreading and factchecking services, for BetterSleep's Meditations and SleepTales.
Authors Publish
● Design curriculums for speculative fiction course, novella course, and one-week fiction intensive course
● Provide extensive developmental feedback on students’ manuscripts
● Hold lectures and discussions with students via weekly Zoom meetings, as well as online platforms Thinkific, Discord, and Circle
● Assign readings and writing exercises from assortment of different narrative traditions, genres, and experimental forms
● Facilitate group workshops
● Guide students through process of submitting to literary journals and presses
● Hold regular office hours
Lookout Books
● Managed Instagram account
● Attended weekly meetings with editors
● Performed copyediting and fact-checking
● Helped create promotional content, solicit authors, and design layout for Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism anthology
● Contributed to Lookout Books/Ecotone blog
The Asian American Literary Review
● Solicited authors for publication
● Attended virtual meetings with editors
● Coordinated payments
● Worked alongside editorial team to select pieces for publication
● Wrote book reviews
● Shipped and processed orders for print issues
Chautaqua Journal
● Read over submissions and selected pieces for publication
● Attended weekly meetings with editors to discuss
● Performed copyediting and fact-checking
● Helped promote and schedule launch party
University of North Carolina Wilmington
● Created lesson plans, designed curriculums for beginner and advanced-level fiction, nonfiction, and poetry courses
● Graded papers and portfolios
● Led workshops
● Met with students via office hours to help them hone their personal craft
Winthrop University
Assistant editor for The Anthology: Winthrop University’s Art and Literary Magazine
Worked with the editor-in-chief to direct our team of prose, poetry, art, and photography editors.
Led team-building exercises and meetings, assigned tasks, assisted in hiring process, approved designs and layouts made by the graphic designer
Copyedited all issues before finalization, organized group of volunteers, communicated directly with those who submitted or expressed interest in the publication
Portfolio
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