Publications & Awards
“Malayan Chorus, Our Voices Arise, Our Harmonies Become the Melody of Song-Story,” Published in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle
(Cataloged in Library of Congress) (February 2024)
First Place Creative Nonfiction
"Ohk-Gai-Nah, Spirit of the Fierce Mother Hen"
Union University's Writing Competition
(February 2024)
E. Nelson James Poetry Award
"Malayan Chorus, Our Voices Arise, Our Harmonies Become the Melody of Song-Story"
Sigma Tau Delta
(September 2023)
“Ready or Not, Here I Come,” Published in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle
(Cataloged in Library of Congress) (February 2023)
"God Makes Our Beds," Published in The Torch, Union University's Literary Arts Journal. (April 2023)
“Butterfly,” Published in The Torch, Union University’s Literary Arts Journal. (April 2022)
First Place Original Poetry
"Malayan Chorus, Our Voices Arise, Our Harmonies Become the Melody of Song-Story"
Sigma Tau Delta International Convention
(April 2023)
Second Place Common Reader
"Bow Lower"
Sigma Tau Delta International Convention
(April 2023)
Second Place Fiction
"Trap of the Blossom: Chapter One"
Union University's Writing Competition
(February 2023)
Second Place Poetry
"The Moon Is a Yolk-Pearl in the Black Sky"
Union University's Writing Competition
(February
2023)
First Place Creative Nonfiction
"A Dot on My Face"
Union University's Writing Competition
(February 2022)
Third Place Short Story
"The Battle of the Curry Shi-Fus"
Union University's Writing Competition
(February 2022)
Won Twenty International & National Public Speaking & Debate Awards
Institute for Cultural Communicators
(2014-2020)
The Young Speakers Guild Award
Highest global level of recognition at ICC Public Speaking & Debate Tournaments
(July 2018)
Two-Time TED-Ed Student Speaker
Chosen from a global pool of students
(June 2018)