Career
Her award-winning work has been published by Altra Magazine, the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, and Bakka Literary Journal. She is a recipient of the 2010 Carey Prize in Spoken Word Poetry. A Minnesota-based spoken word poet, she has performed and taught creative writing workshops nationally across the United States and internationally in Italy and Japan.
She has worked with the Anchorage Urban League of Young Professionals lecturing and performing at the university-level and local high schools to urge voter registration and civic engagement and also served as liaison between local government and the Southeast Asian community regarding public policy in Alaska.
She was a featured artist for the Sulu Series in Washington District of Columbia, Philadelphia, and New York, a three-city monthly showcase of emerging and established Asian American artists, founded by Taiyo Na. In her decade of experience as a spoken word poet, she has grown tremendously by learning from and having shared the stage with Danny Solis, Laura Piece Kelley, Blitz the Ambassador, Doomtree, Bao Phi, David Mura, Kelly Tsai, Regie Cabico, Yellow Rage, Editor Bok Lee, and Stacey Ann Chinese, among others
Her short plays are frequently staged at The Minnesota Playwrights’ Center. Her piece, Yellowtail Sashimi, was part of the 2010 Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Other notable readings she has organized include Lao"d and Clear (2004) at the Loft Literary Center and Operation: Gynocracy at the Black Dog Cafe (2010).
She was a co-chair of the first Lao American Writers Summit in Minnesota in 2010 and works actively to support the work of Lao women writers and artists across the country to celebrate heritage, diversity and community development. In 2011 she joined the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans as the Cultural Coordinator and will oversee funding from the 2008 Legacy Acting to benefit Asian Pacific cultural initiatives in the state.
