She and her family were part of the wave of "boat people" from Southeast Asia, arriving at a refugee camp in Malaysia.
She worked on the book as an illustrator and collaborated with spoken word artist and writer Bao Phi for the project.
[10] In 2019, she teamed up with acclaimed novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen for a new picture book titled Chicken of the Sea.
[11] Since her debut work, she has gone on to write and illustrate short-form comics about many domestic political issues within the Southeast Asian community.
[12][13] Her next book, Nowhereland, will focus on the topics of incarceration and deportation of the Southeast Asian people in the United States.