*Author's poetry and essays have been widely published in journals such as The Paris Review, Academy of American Poets, Iowa Review, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Brooklyn Rail, Harpers, Gulf Coasts, and many others.
*Author has been selected for many prizes and scholarships, including the Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction grant, the PEN Open Book Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award from Poetry Society of America.
*Author's book on the afterlife of Japanese American incarcerated received a Creative Nonfiction grant from the Whiting Foundation, and is forthcoming in Fall 2024 from City Lights.
*Author is currently a professor of creative writing at Colorado College, and Pacific northwest college of Art.
*Author is in the experimental Marfa Texas poetry community
*Author has conducted interviews and built relationships with a community of Japanese American elders who suffered incarceration during World War II.
*Of interest for anyone who finds solace in the desert, to people who are interested in/study the desert and/or Japanese American incarceration and/or incarceration, and who were looking for literature/poetry that could aid/abet that interest/study.
*Of interest for people who are fascinated by ghosts, both of one's family and of the country.
*Author as the social media manager of Fence Books 2012-2021
*Previous book won the 2020 Pen America Open Book award
*Of interest to people interested in Etel Adnan, Dorthea Lasky, Don Mee Choi,
*For those who are interested in dreams, ghosts, borderlands, returning, and the ways in which the forgotten seeps back in through the cracks of a land.
*Author wrote an essay about wanting to become an artist before wanting to become a poet