As a ghostwriter, editor, and book consultant, his work includes the memoirs of an artist and US presidential portraitist, an American mountaineer, and a #MeToo whistleblower.

He is a professional member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, volunteers on his local Chamber of Commerce’s Public Policy Committee, and is an appointed member of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Task Force on Worker Misclassification.

His short fiction is published in The Stinging Fly, and he is working on his debut novel, which was longlisted for CRAFT’s First Chapters Contest and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellowship.

As a filmmaker, his work includes “The Towers”, a documentary short film about a little person basketball team from New York, which won the Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN Future Filmmaker Prize. It was distributed by Great Big Story and has received nearly five million views online. He is in post-production on a follow-up documentary, “Last Suppers”. He directed “One Bar More”, a narrative short film that won Raindance Film Festival’s Open Shorts Night. He has co-written and co-directed two other narrative shorts, “Waves” and “Virtue”, and is developing his first narrative feature film, “Hail Daisy.”

For his work, he has received fellowships from the Hemera Foundation and the Pulitzer Prizes.

He practices in the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism and lives in New York City.