EDUCATION Los Gatos High School, 1997-2001 Yale University, 2001-2003 California College of the Arts, Spring 2004 Stanford University, 2004-2006 (graduated with distinction)   PUBLICATIONS ETC. VITAPHOBIA Print zine, Issues 1-8, December 1996-present. Self-published art/personal/literary/political zine. Distributed by Pander Zine Distro, Wrong Number Distro, Supernova Distro, etc. YELL-OH! GIRLS Book. Edited by Vickie Nam (2001): Perennial Currents (HarperCollins). Essays ("The Train," "For Those Who Love Yellow Girls"). YALE HERALD Newspaper. Semi-weekly comic, "Your Life." 2001-2003. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ALIVE Artist's book. (2002): New Haven Jonathan Edwards Press. Located at the Arts of the Book Collection at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University. CRANE MAGAZINE Online magazine, Issue 5, February 2004. Photographs and short story ("The Other Head: A Story in Ten Parts"). F-STOP MAGAZINE Online magazine, Issue 4, February/March 2004 (The Intimacy & Desire Issue). Photograph. EVOLUTION OF A RACE RIOT Print zine. Edited by Mimi Nguyen. Issue 2. Essays ("For Those Who Love Yellow Girls," "Slant Eyes"). COZYTONE Online magazine, Album 10, December 2004. Photographs. EXHIBITIONS ART (?) Single show of paintings, mixed-media. Borders, Los Gatos, CA. August 2001 M. WANG Single show of paintings, mixed media, photography. Great Bear Coffee, Los Gatos, CA 2003 FW MAGAZINE AND TOYOTA PRESENTS: THE ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP Group photography exhibition & live music dance party. Studio Z, San Francisco, CA. September 23 2004 TALKS, READINGS, ETC. MASTER'S TEA Promotional Master's Tea reading and signing at Pierson College for Yell-Oh! Girls. New Haven, CT September 2001 FOUR MINUTE READING Read from short story ("The Feeling of Falling") at Margaret Jacks Hall at Stanford University. Stanford, CA June 2005, again (The Quietest) in May 2006 INSTRUCTIONAL READING Read from short story and answered questions at Bellarmine Preparatory High School. San Jose, CA September 2005, again in March 2006 AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 2006 New York State Summer Writers Institute Minority Scholarship (declined) 2006 Louis Sudler Award for Excellence in Creative Writing 2006 J.E. Wallace Sterling Award at Stanford University            2007 Harper-Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature from St. John’s College, Cambridge University (short-listed)