Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION | EDITING EXPERIENCE | SELECTED WRITINGS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE | SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS | AWARDS
- 2009-2011 University of Houston, U.S.A.
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Fiction
- 2000-2004 University of Toronto, Canada
- B.A.Hons summa cum laude, English Literature and Political Science
- 1999-2000 Queen’s University International Study Centre, England
- 1998-1999 Canadian International School, Singapore
- 2009 – 2010 Deputy Editor, Racialicious (www.racialicious.com)
- 2007-2008 Communications Officer – Writer, The Ontario Women’s Health Network, Toronto Canada,
- 2007-2008 Web Editor, Shameless Magazine (www.shamelessmag.com) Toronto, Canada
- 2007 Grant Writer, Project C.A.N.O.E., Toronto, Canada
- 2004 Proofreader, Shameless Magazine, #1 and #2, Toronto Canada
- 2002 – 2005 Copy Editor, jargon magazine, Toronto Canada
- 2002 – 2004 Copy Editor and Writer The Independent, Toronto Canada
- 2010 Guest Blogger, Bitch Magazine
- 2008 Special Correspondent, www.racialicious.com
- 2006-2009 Staff Blogger, www.shamelessmag.com
- 2007 Author, “Swish”, The Canadian Women’s Studies\les cahiers de la
- femme, Vol. 24 (No. 7), Toronto Canada
- 2007 Author, The Same Woman, Invisible Publishing, Halifax and Montréal, Canada (invisiblepublishing.com)
- 2007 Contributing Writer, The Utne Reader, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
- 2005 Guest Columnist, Shameless Magazine #4, Toronto Canada
- 2005 Contributing Essayist, “Open Heart,” Between Myself and Them: Stories of Disability and Difference, Second Story Press Feminist Publishers, Toronto Canada
- 2005 Staff Writer, Shanghai Scene, Shanghai, China
- 2004 Contributing Writer, Spacing Magazine #3, Toronto Canada
- 2009-2011 Instructor, University of Houston English Department, Houston
- 2010 Instructor, Fiction Workshop, Boldface Conference for Emerging Writers
- 2009 Adult ESL Instructor, PMP Worker’s Action Centre
- 2008 Cycle 6 Facilitator/Lead Artist (9 Workshops), Asian Arts Freedom School, Toronto
- 2008 Guest Workshop Facilitator: What Is A Story?, Asian Arts Freedom
- School, Toronto
- 2007 Guest Workshop Facilitator: Radical History Workshop, S.E.A.S. Centre,
- Toronto
- 2010 Oberlin College Asian Heritage Month, 26 April, Oberlin College
- 2010 PCA/ACA National Conference, 1 April, St Louis
- 2009 TRCC/MWAR Feminist Activist Herstory Forum, 4 January, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, Toronto
- 2008 The IV Lounge Reading Series, 8 January, The IV Lounge, Toronto
- 2007 Launch: In A Mist, 16 November, This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, Toronto
- 2007 Invisible Publishing Spring 2007 Book Tour, 14 April, Concordia Co-Op Bookstore, Montreal and 17 April, Venus Envy, Halifax
- 2007 Launch: The Same Woman, 13 April, The Women’s Bookstore, Toronto
- 2006 Performer: Re-Sisters of Colour, 30 November, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough
- 2006 Panelist: “Creating Change Through Narrative: Reflections on Disability and Difference, 11 March, SPINLAW 2006, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
- 2005 Panelist: Between Myself and Them: Stories of Disability and Difference, 28 October, Abilities Arts Festival 2005, Toronto
- 2011 Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Nonfiction
- 2011 Honourable Mention, Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Fiction
- 2009 Presidential Fellowship, Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston
- 2009 M.D. Anderson Foundation Fellowship, Inprint Houston
- 2008 Writing and Publishing Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
- 2007 Grant for New and Emerging Writers, The Toronto Arts Council
- 2004 Honourable Mention, The Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing, University of
- Toronto
- 2003 First Prize, The Hart House Review Short Story Competition
- 2003 The Samuel J. Stubbs Scholarship, The University of Toronto