- She met her husband Raymond whilst they were both freshmen at Yale. They became reacquainted at their 15th college reunion and began dating shortly thereafter. He works as a manager of the marketing unit of Carlson in New Jersey.
- She was the winner of the 2006 Whiting Writing Award for emerging writers.
- She is a graduate from Yale. She received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa and, in 1998 and 1999, studied Korean as a Fulbright fellow at Yonsei University and Seoul National University.
- She wrote "Notes From the Divided Country: Poems" (Louisiana State University Press, 2003), which was the winner of the 2002 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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