M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell University
Advisory Committee: Alice Fulton, Ishion Hutchinson

M.A., English Literature, University of Toronto
Advisory Committee: Carmine Starnino, Richard Greene

​B.A., English Literature, University of British Columbia 

Writer in Residence, Wichita State University (2025).

Recipient, The 2024 Amy Clampitt Residency (2023).

Recipient, Artist-in-Residence & Master Artist Fellowship at Craigardan Residency (2023).

Recipient, Past Wrongs, Future Choices International Artist & Scholar Residency at the University of Victoria (2023).

Writer in Residence, North Carolina State University (2022).

Recipient, The New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship (2021).

Winner, The BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Burning Province (2021).

Winner, The Canada-Japan Literary Award for Burning Province (2021).

Recipient, The Cornell University Philip Freund Prize for Burning Province (2021).

Shortlisted, Raymond Souster Award for Burning Province (2021).

Recipient, The 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (2021).

Second Place, Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for “Broken Record" (2021).

Second Place, Sewanee Review Poetry Contest for “Palinode" (2020).

Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Grant (2020).

First Runner-up, The American Academy in Rome Prize (2020).

Recipient, Hawthornden Literary Retreat (2019).

Recipient, Wallace Stegner Fellowship (declined) (2019).

Recipient, Canada Council for the Arts Grant (2018).

Winner, Matrix Magazine Lit POP Award for Poetry for “Some Notes Regarding Your Immortal Soul,” “Toll,” and “The More Deceived" (2015).

Second Place, The Fiddlehead Bliss Carman Poetry Prize for “Hinny" (2015).

Winner, The Walrus Poetry Prize for “Ventriloquism for Dummies" (2014).

Second Place, The New Quarterly Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest for “The Fisher" (2014).

Winner, Magma Poetry Editors' Prize for “Lamprey" (2013).

Associate Professor of English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow, Macalester College (2024 - present)

Assistant Professor of English and Mellon ACM Faculty Fellow, Macalester College (2019 - 2024)

Sample of Courses Taught:
ENGL 105: Introduction to Asian American Literature 
ENGL 150: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 280: Crafts of Writing (Poetry)
ENGL 406: Projects in Creative Writing - Majors Seminar 
ENGL 494: Poetry Chapbooks
ENGL 612: Independent Project (Poetry)
ENGL 642: Honors Independent Project (Poetry)

Lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University (2016 - 2019)

ENGL 2880: Expository Writing (Creative Non-fiction)
ENGL 2800: Introduction to Creative Writing 
ENGL 4950: Directed Studies in Creative Writing 
ENGL 1168: Cultural Studies - Art & Argument
ENGL 1167: Great New Books

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Teaching Assistant in the Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University (2016)

ENGL 1131: Latin American History

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Teaching Assistant in the Department of English, University of Toronto (2014 - 2015)

ENGL 210: Introduction to Poetry
ENGL 110: Academic Writing

Recipient, Martin Sampson Teaching Award - Cornell University, Department of Literatures in English (2019)

Recipient, Martin Sampson Teaching Award - Cornell University, Department of Literatures in English (2018)

Editor, Signal Editions Poetry(2024 - present)

Michael Koch Guest Editor, Poetry, Epoch Magazine (2024 - 25)