Education
Mills College, Oakland, California
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing in Fiction, May 2011
Syracuse University College of Law, New York
Juris Doctor, May 2003
Honors: Certificate of Specialization in Family Law and Social Policy
Academic Award: Jurisprudence of Human Rights
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Arts, Literatures in English, December 1999
University of Auckland, New Zealand
UC Education Abroad Year Program, NZ Literature and Maori Politics, November 1998
Programs / Seminars
Summer Literary Seminars, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2018
Poetry with Ariana Reines; Prose and poetry (mixed genre) with Jenny Zhang
DISQUIET International Literary Program, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017
Poetry with Denise Duhamel
Editorial Positions
The STETosphere LLC, Freelance Editor, 2021-Present
As/Us, Fiction Editor, 2017
Judging
Women Hold Up Half The Sky Award, First-round judge, 2021
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