Selected CV
Born: South Korea
Citizenship: USA, adopted naturalized citizen
Contact Details: Please use my email button or social links below. My LinkedIn profile has a complete list of work history, teaching, and volunteer experience.
Education:
Certificate in Editing and Publishing, UCLA Extension, expected 2025
Master of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies (Political Science and Writing), Western New Mexico University, 2016
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, Goddard College, 2015
Master of Arts, Philosophy, Rice University, 2011
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Princeton University, 2008
Literary Magazine Experience:
Managing Editor, Five Minutes Lit, 2023-current
Assistant Editor, The Seventh Wave, 2023-current
Assistant Fiction Editor, Foglifter, 2023-current
Managing Editor, Chestnut Review, 2021-current
Poetry Editor, The Hanok Review, 2021-current
Associate Editor, Uncharted Mag, 2021-current
Contest Reader, Novel Slices, 2023
Reader, Longleaf Review, 2020-2021, 2023
Managing Editor, The Petigru Review, 2022
Prose Editor, Chestnut Review, 2020-2022
Managing Editor, Emerge Literary Journal, 2021
Poetry Reader, SLICE Magazine, 2020-2021
Editor, ang(st), 2020-2021
Content Editor, the winnow, 2020-2021
Flash Fiction and Short Story Manuscript Reader, Split/Lip Press, 2021
Summer Reader, Headway Quarterly, 2020
Editor-in-Chief, Hapax, 2016
Staff, Twisted Vine Literary Journal, 2015
Selected Grants and Awards:
Juniper Summer Institute Independent Writing Residency, 2024
South Carolina Griot Scholarship, The Watering Hole, 2023
2nd place, Exposition Review Flash 405 Contest “Flight”, 2023
Emerging Artist Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, 2023
Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award, Salamander, 2023
Tin House Winter Workshop, 2023
Poetry Manuscript Fellow, The Watering Hole, 2022.
Leaders in the Arts Distinguished Fellowship, The Hambidge Center, 2022
SFWA Nebula Conference Scholarship, 2022
Juniper Institute Full Scholarship, 2022
Tin House Winter Workshop, 2022
Kundiman Fellow, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, 2022
3rd place, Porter House Review Editor's Prize in Poetry, 2021
GrubStreet Novel Generator, 2021-2022
Boston Writers of Color Group Literary Support Scholarship, 2021
LitFest Advanced Workshop, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 2021
SCWA Virtual Writers’ Conference Student Scholarship, 2021
Winner, Fractured Lit 100-word Story Mini-Contest, 2021
Selection, Best Small Fictions, 2021
Kenyon Review Poetry Workshop and Scholarship, 2021
Voices of Our Nations Arts Weekend Intensive, 2021
HUES Scholar, HUES Foundation, 2021
2021 AWP Community Scholarship, AWP, 2021
Toni Brown Memorial Scholarship, Murphy Writers, 2020
BWOC Consulting Scholarship, GrubStreet, 2020
Write Down the Street Scholarship, GrubStreet, 2020
TWH Retreat Fellow, The Watering Hole Poetry, 2020
HUES Scholar, HUES Foundation, 2020
Winner, Cream City Review Summer Prize in Poetry, 2020
The Loft’s Wordsmith Conference Scholarship, 2020
Spirit of Goddard Scholarship, 2014
Longlist and Finalist:
Finalist, 2024 Lit/South Awards for Poetry, 2024
Finalist, -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest, 2023
Semi-finalist, Newfound Prose Prize, 2023
Longlist, The Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award, 2022-2023
Waitlist, Tin House Autumn Workshop, 2022
Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50, 2022
Finalist, Lighthouse Writers Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry, 2022
Longlist, Disquiet Literary Contest, 2022
Finalist, -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest, 2021
Semi-finalist, Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize, 2021
Residencies:
Juniper Independent Writing Residency, June 2024
The Hambidge Center, December 2022
House of Two Urns Writer’s Retreat, Chicago, IL. January 2016
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON. July-August 2015
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON. August 2014
Starry Night Artist-in-Residence, Truth or Consequences, NM. May 2014
House of Two Urns Writer’s Retreat, Chicago, IL. February 2014
Exhibitions:
Leominster Art Center and Gallery, 2014-2015
PalletFest 2015, Denver, CO, August 29-30, 2015
Alternative Holiday Gift Fair, Boulder, CO, December 5-6, 2015
Alternative Holiday Gift Fair, Boulder, CO, December 6-7, 2014
Leominster Art & Craft Bazaar, Leominster, MA, November 29, 2014
Languages:
Modern/spoken: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese
Academic research: Ancient Greek, Latin, French, German
Basic: Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Italian
Countries Visited:
USA, Mexico, Canada, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, St. Croix, Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Israel, Palestine, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan, Uganda, England