Poet
Publications & Prizes
2019 Joyce Award; 2019 Forecast Mid-Career Grant; 2018 Rhizome Microgrant: Poetry; 2017 University of CA Merced Center for the Humanities Artist-In-Residence; 2015 NBC Asian American Poet to Watch; 2014 Book of the Year, Science Fiction Poetry Association; 2014 Readers Choice Award, Strange Horizons; 2012 Cultural Olympian, Southbank Centre, London Summer Olympics; 2011 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board; 2010 Literacy Award, Lao Professionals of Illinois; 2009 Asian Pacific Leadership Award, Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans; 2009 NEA Fellowship In Literature; 2008 Artists Initiative Grant, MN State Arts Board; 2007 Career Initiative Grant, Loft Literary Center; 2005 MN State Arts Board Cultural Collaboration; 2002 MN Playwrights Center Many Voices Fellow; 1991 James E. Casey Scholar; 1991 Otterbein College Ammons-Thomas Award.