In 1948, the year Burma regained its independence from the British, she began attending Rangoon University.

She began as a medical student, but changed course in her third year, finishing school with a bachelor of arts instead.

After the marriage, she managed to work as a lecturer in the English Department of Yangon University and resumed her interrupted medical studies to completion.

She had begun writing poems and short stories since she was in high school.

[1] She emigrated to the United States in December 1971, with her husband and children, where she obtained her medical license.