A former editor of the literary magazine Prism Review, she has published poems and essays in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects, Embodying Asian American Sexualities, Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art, and Pacific Coast Philology. She received her B.A. in English from UC Berkeley and Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California.