I'm now part of the Fulbright Specialist Program

January, 2025: Delighted to announce that I was selected to be part of the Fulbright Specialist Program, 2025-2028. As part of this roster of scholar-practitioners, I can be invited by

international institutions of higher ed,
nonprofit organizations,
arts/culture groups,
governmental agencies, etc

These international entities often ask Fulbright Specialists to lead workshops, arrange consultations, and participate in convenings related to the Specialist's areas of expertise. Fulbright will fund travel and some expenses to locations outside the US.

I'm happy to talk with you about

organizing for education justice,
promoting intergenerational and family civic engagement, and
teaching/creative writing of multi-ethnic literatures of the US

Please see the Fulbright Specialist Program link for Host Institutions for more information, or reach out to me at my contact page here.

New

Now in emerge24, a literary journal put out by The Writers Studio, Simon Fraser University's creative writing program: "Ghost Woman, Fox Woman," an excerpt from my novel manuscript, Splendid China, USA.

"Ghost Woman, Fox Woman"

I like to write about impossible things, like a Florida theme park that existed in the 1990s in Orlando. It featured tiny monuments from popular tourist sites in China and was intended to lure tourists to the Florida park and then encourage them to book tours to the real-life, big-as-day country of China. Of course, no one in central Florida was interested in doing anything of the kind. Chalk it up as a failure for the People's Republic of China, which ran the park. But as a u-topia, a no-place, it was a perfect location to set a road trip comedy about international reproductive justice. How strange and awful that there were actually more reproductive health choices for American women in the '90s, the period in which this story is set, than today.

The emerge24 issue with the excerpt is available for purchase here.

Contact

I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.

Reach out via my contact page