Honorable Mention in Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes 2021

I wrote this narrative nonfiction essay on the loss of my grandmother during the start of the pandemic, resulting in a funeral attended over Zoom.

It's about grief and diasporic displacement, the longing for connection, for understanding, for home, but it's also about how I still miss my a-ma every day and always will.

Published in The Pomona College Music Gazette

An interview with Raj Bhimani, accomplished concert pianist, on his recent projects and career reflections.

Published in Agave Review, the literary magazine of the Claremont Colleges

A prose piece on sisters, magic, and change, set in a convenience store in Taipei.

In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Senior Exercise

My senior thesis delved into the western reincarnation trope through examining its usage in media and how it addressed matters of identity and self, especially in the case of Asian women. Western reincarnation stories will claim that the body is just a vessel, that the same soul can exist in bodies of various races and genders, as if your racial identity is part of your easily discardable shell. To explore how this is approached in different works, I examined the reincarnation of female Asian bodies through contemporary fiction such as David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl, and by writing an original short story. A young woman works at an oddly invasive, wedding montage-editing company, delving into repetition in human attachment in both the stories of others, as well as her own.