Her poetry and essay collections are inspired by nature and her Chinese-Malaysian heritage, and she has received a number of notable awards including the inaugural Women Poets' Prize in 2018.
[1][2] She is half Chinese-Malaysian, a granddaughter of ichthyologist Chin Phui Kong,[3] and has said that she aims to address the poetry canon's bias towards white European men in her writing.
[4] She holds a master's degree in creative writing with distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington (2015).
[1] A review of Tiny Moons by Cha literary journal described it as "at once an intimate, personal account of Chinese food that will make you crave dumplings and noodles, as well as a profound contemplation on the notions of cultural hybridity, emotional landscapes and belonging".
These essays are heavily populated, dense with history and books and grandparents and cabbage butterflies and bags of mandarins and big fragrant bowls of phở.