After being sponsored by LA Times in March 2019 to visit Vietnam for family research, I’ve continued compiling my family’s oral history into a creative nonfiction memoir. Some of the pieces have been published in LA Times, The College Independent, and Visions Magazine. In September 2020, I submitted this project idea to Pen America’s PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History and was moved to the second round.

This is an ongoing personal project.