 Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute.She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation.She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China.