Career
Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry, not as a subject, but in the careful formulation of words to white space and precision. She has a half-Chinese son with New Zealand poet Linzy Forbes. She now lives in Geelong.
She has been a finalist in several poetry competitions and received grants from Creative New Zealand and the Willi Fels Memorial Trust.
Her first poetry collection, Cup, was released in February 2006 by Steele Roberts. lieutenant was shortlisted for a poetry prize in the Montana Book awards.
In 2003 she was a guest writer at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival and the Wordstruck! Festival in Dunedin, as well as a speaker for the Stout Research Centre Chinese New Zealand Seminar Series.
