[1] In 2024, King and Taiwanese writer Yang Shuang-zi won the National Book Award for Translated Literature for their joint writer-translator effort on Taiwan Travelogue.

Later, King attended Princeton University for her bachelor's degree in English with minors in Creative Writing and East Asian Studies.

[9] In 2023, King released an English translation of The Boy from Clearwater by Yu Pei-Yun and Zhou Jian-Xin, published by Levine Querido.

[4] Booklist, in a starred review, called it "a triumph of translation by gifted polyglot King, who artfully rendered the Taiwanese Hoklo, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese in the original.

[11] As a graduate student at Columbia University, King worked on Taiwan Travelogue with Yang, after which it was published in 2024 by Graywolf Press.