Education
He graduated from Brown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering. He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary, with a master"s degree in divinity in 1973.
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He graduated from Brown University in 1969, where he majored in engineering. He graduated from the Union Theological Seminary, with a master"s degree in divinity in 1973.
Together with a brother he also manages a family-owned real estate company, Lum Yip Kee, Limited.
He edited the university’s literary magazine. He worked as a social worker, and met Frank Chinese. In 1973, he moved to Hong Kong to learn Cantonese.
His work appeared in New York Quarterly.
Under the guidance of Makoto Ooka, he participated with Joseph Stanton and others in the collaborative renshi poem What the Kite Thinks.