educator & editor
Bio:
Ploi is a graduate of the 2018 Clarion Writer's Workshop and holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University where she has taught creative writing as a lecturer. She has participated in selection committees for the Aspen Words Prize, the Newfound Prose prize, for hiring committees at the high school and university level, and at various artist residencies. She’s also curated for Kearny Street Workshop’s annual Asian/Asian American arts festival, and is currently Kundiman's Northern California Co-Chair, the Nonfiction Editor at Newfound Journal, the Literary Arts curator for the San Francisco Unified Districts Arts Festival, and a thesis advisor for graduate students at the University of Hong Kong's Creative Writing MFA program.
Assistant Director
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adjunct professor
Ploi teaches 10-week and 6-week courses about speculative fiction, dialogue & point of view, and how to find your voice. Her students have gone on to publish in literary journals she could only dream of being published in and she's proud.
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instructor
Ploi leads the 5-week Bootcamps for emerging writers and provides a constructive and safe environment to workshop each other's true stories. She often holds back a few tears from listening to all of the truths shared in her classes.
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