Huang was born in Ohio and raised in Michigan.
Huang stayed in China for three years and then moved back to the United States.
[2][3] Huang's first book, Favorite Daughter, is divided into four segments that are roughly in regards to: immigration, Shanghai, America and assimilation.
She worked on this project for two years before she entered it into the Write Bloody Poetry Book contest.
[4][5] The book won the 2016 Write Bloody Publishing Prize for poetry.