Ongoing
- Just Between Us — syndicated newspaper column
Co-written with Angie Liang (since 2007)
Published in the Star-Courier and the Northeast News
Also archived at the JBU website
- Writer Unboxed — multi-author blog about the craft of writing
Guest contributor (since 2010)
2010
- “How to Field Dress a Deer” — flash fiction
Published in the Oakland Review
- Twenty-Somewhere — web series
Complete at 40 episodes (2008-2010)
Available via Amazon, iTunes, BN.com, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, Smashwords
- The Dieline — the world’s #1 package design blog
Editorial contributor (2008-2010)
2009
- Winner of St. Martin’s “New Adult” Contest
For web series Twenty-Somewhere (see above)
- Amazon Breatkthrough Novel Award – Quarterfinalist
For first novel The Good Daughters
2007
- “Love Story” — micro-fiction
Fifty Beans competition (Starwood Hotels & Resorts)
- Phi Beta Kappa award ($500)
Meeting of the Minds (Carnegie Mellon University)
For a presentation on my first novel The Good Daughters
2006
- 3rd Place Fiction ($50)
Adamson Awards (Carnegie Mellon University)
For “The Escape”
2005 – 2006
- “Ama,” “Wo Ai Ni,” and an untitled prose piece
Published in Big Straw (Carnegie Mellon University)
2003
- Karen C. Pinson Portfolio Award ($1,000)
Scholastic Writing Competition (Regional Level)
Portfolio included personal essay “Ama,” several poems, and 2 short stories
