Bio

When I was eight years old, my mother bought me a Mead spiral-bound notebook. I filled that book, and many more after that, with my observations and thoughts. After a few ill-fated semesters attempting to be pre-med at Berkeley, I realized that I’ve always loved words and stories and that I would find a way to make a career out of them.

My debut food memoir, How to Cook Rice, will be published in early 2027 by Regalo Press and distributed through Simon & Schuster. For book length writing, I’m represented by Jen Chen Tran of Glass Literary Management.

Other food and culture reporting of mine has been featured on NPR, Public Radio International, and NBC. I also write literary essays, which have been published by magazines such as Tin House, Catapult, and The Seventh Wave. I am an alumna of the VONA and Tin House writing workshops, and my essays have been included in the anthologies Nonwhite and Woman:131 Micro Essays on Being in the World (Woodhall Press), Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Wordand Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Utterly Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (both by City Works Press).

Currently, I work as the Communications and Engagement Director at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Previously, I have been the News & Politics Editor for BlogHer.com, managing daily first-person content from women writers of a diversity of racial, political, and cultural backgrounds. After graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and then training at the Stanford Mass Media Institute, I worked for five years as a broadcast journalist for several network affiliate TV stations.

When I’m not writing nowadays, you can find me trying out new recipes or walking my dog Pepper.