Published Writing
Essays and Creative Nonfiction
Eat, Eat - The McNeese Review, forthcoming March 2027
We Ate Standing Up - Vol. 1 Brooklyn
The Name They Gave Me - Brevity (excerpt from Two Keys)
The Taste of Freedom - Chicago Story Press Journal
The Stray - AAWP: Meniscus Literary Journal
The Bite I Still Wake For - The Citron Review
Before the Static - Hare’s Paw Literary Journal; reprinted in Livina (2026)
They Waited for the Sun - Gone Lawn
Boston - Flash Frontier
Fiction
Two Small Lives by the Window - Varnish Online
Awards & Recognition
“The Fridge” – Shortlisted, Woollahra Digital Literary Award
“The First Pattern” – Shortlisted, The Fiddlehead 2026 Creative Nonfiction Contest
“Thirty-Seven Days” – Shortlisted, Heritage Scroll Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Competition
“The Fridge” – Shortlisted, RUSSH Literary Showcase
“Two Keys” – Finalist, Unleash Press 2026 WIP Prize
“Two Keys” – Honourable Mention, Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships
“Red Light in the Small Hours” – Longlisted, The Florida Review Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award
“The Fridge” – Longlisted, Stockholm Writers Festival First 5 Pages Prize
Recipient, Willoughby City Council Arts Grant
Book
Two Keys is a literary memoir spanning Beijing, Auckland, Sydney and New York. Through migration, family and the ordinary objects carried between lives, it explores the unstable rules of belonging and the places where a self is rebuilt.
Completed manuscript currently under submission.