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.