“The ice-cold water, the terror and hope she had for a new life instantly revived. It didn’t take her long to realize, however, that no man could start fresh, free from the past, from the choices. After all, the past was all she had. It was all she had to live with.”
— Rivers Between Us
2024
ESSAY: Grieving In Your Name (Tint Journal)
Tinted Tales Reading (Cafe Erde in Graze, Austria)
2020
ESSAY: A Tender Heart of Spring Recess (Stories of the Pandemic, University of Alberta)
STORY COLLECTION: Rivers Between Us (Master’s Thesis, University of Hawaii)
2019
FICTION: A Free Life
Runner up for the Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Contest
Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts Issue 118
2016
ESSAY: 사랑하는 코리아타운에게 (Yeohang Sooketch, Sookmyung Women’s University)
2015
FICTION: 코리아타운
Winner of the Kim Yong Literature Award in Fiction
2014
MEMOIR: 마침내 슬픔이 잠들었다
Winner of the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest