Later, she graduated from Middlebury College as an English major in 2015; she had worked at the New England Review in 2014.
[1] Afterward, she attended the MFA program at Rutgers University–Newark where she both studied and taught poetry.
[5] The Adroit Journal compared the book to M. NourbeSe Philip's "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy" and lauded Luan's "language, absence, and longing rupture against the linearity of time, finality of death, and limits of a life.
"[6] Publishers Weekly called it a rich and vivid exploration of the Taiwanese American diaspora and said "Through recurring and interwoven motifs of memory, myth, and grief, Luan offers a subtle, engaging, and linguistically exciting reflection on language and place.
"[7] Luan was a 2020 Margins Fellow with the Asian American Writers' Workshop.