| 2024 | La Napoule Art Foundation International Artist Residency, La Napoule, France |
| 2023 | San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant |
| 2023 | San Francisco Arts Commission FY21 Arts Impact Endowment Grant |
| 2023 | Shortlisted for Flushing Poetry Festival’s poetry award (Chinese poetry) |
| 2023 | Djerassi Resident Artists Program International Artist Residency, Woodside, CA |
| 2023 | Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry by Indelible |
| 2022 | China’s Xu Zhimo Micro Poem Competition /中国徐志摩微诗歌大赛 Award |
| 2022 | Pushcart Prize nomination for poetry (bilingual) by Arion Press |
| 2021 | Sankofa Fund for Cultural Preservation Grant by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts |
| 2021 | Research grant for HEAVENLY FIELDS, a film, from Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), San Francisco, CA |
| 2008 | California Collections by California Readers |
| 2007 & 2008 | International Reading Association (IRA) Book Award Notable |
| 2007 | Djerassi Resident Artists Program International Artist Residency, Woodside, CA |
| 2007 | VETERANS OF WAR, VETERANS OF PEACE: Northern California Book Reviewers Special Award in Publishing |
| 2007 | Best Book Award honorable mention by Chinese American Librarians’ Association |
| 2006 | Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Book Award Honor Book |
| 2006 | Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the National Council of 2006 Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) |
| 2006 | New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age |
| 2005 | Parents’ Choice Award |
| 2005 | Voice of Young Advocates’ Poetry Picks |
| 2005 to 2012 | LITTLE GREEN: Growing up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution |
