About Me
I wear shorts too early in the season, and I'm trying to head towards the right set of forking paths. Ideas and projects pull me in, and I do everything I can to see them through to the end.
Writing is teaching me how to listen, and I'm trying to find the pulse of my work, the heartbeat breathing life into me. In my academic and creative work, I tend to find it in exploring the formation of identity, shifting boundaries, and relationships with home.
See more about my current and past work below.
Current Work
Education
Content Coordinator | March 2020 — present
Laboratory for Child Brain Development
Video Game Writer/Narrative Developer | July 2019 - present
University of Pittsburgh, graduated April 2019
Bachelor of Arts, English Fiction Writing
Bachelor of Philosophy, Communication Rhetoric
Minor: Chinese
Past Work
Barista | June 2019-March 2020
Editor in Chief | Dec. 2016 – April 2019
Assistant Editor | April 2016 – Dec. 2016
Non-Fiction Editor | Sept. 2015 – April 2016
Copy Chief | April 2018 – April 2019
Assistant Copy Chief | August 2017 – April 2018
Copy Editor | Jan. 2017 – April 2017
University of Pittsburgh, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Social Media Ambassador, @h2pkim | August 2018 – April 2019
Editorial Intern | June 2017 – August 2017
Editorial Intern | Jan. 2016 – April 2016
University of Pittsburgh, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid
Pathfinder (tour guide) | Sept. 2015 – August 2017
Editor in Chief | Aug. 2013 – May 2015
Contributing writer and artist | Aug. 2011 – May 2013
Production Editor | March 2014 – March 2015
Staff Writer | March 2014 – May 2015
Honors
Yuan Prize | April 2019
Curiosity Grant | April 2018
Brackenridge Research Fellowship | Fall 2017
John H. Tsui Memorial Scholarship | February 2017
University of Pittsburgh English Department Internship Grant | February 2017
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Nominee Scholarship | 2015
University of Pittsburgh, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s List | Fall 2015-present
Publications
"Unnamed," short story forthcoming in Kweli Journal
"Fighting Through Turnover Tempest: Running an Undergraduate Literary Magazine," essay published in The Review Review | March 2018
"The Effect of Race on Female Relationships," literary analysis published in Forbes & Fifth Journal | Fall 2016
Teaching
Tutor (4th and 5th grade reading comprehension), Pittsburgh, Pa. | 2019-present
Teaching Assistant, "Literary Publishing," University of Pittsburgh (spring 2018), Pittsburgh, Pa. | 2018
Teaching Assistant, Invited Lecturer, "Argument," University of Pittsburgh (fall 2017), Pittsburgh, Pa. | 2017
Tutor (English as a Second Language, individual and group lessons), Shanghai, China | 2017
Tutor (grade school English reading and comprehension), Novastar Prep, Reston, Va. | 2016
Tutor (AP US Government), Potomac, Md. | 2014