Ia tusia se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na fanau Mong-Lan i Saigon, i Saute o Vietnam, ae na tuua lona atunuu o Vietnam i le aso mulimuli o le aveeseina o Saigon
. O ia sa avea muamua ma Stegner Fellow i le Iunivesite o Stanford, Fulbright Scholar, ua ia lolomiina tusi e fitu o solo ma ata, tolu tusi o mataupu, ua manumalo i faʻailoga e pei o le Juniper Prize ma le Pushcart Prize. O ana solo na aofia i le tele o tusi e pei o le "Best American Poetry Anthology", tele Norton Anthologies, ma le "The Pushcart Book of Poetry: Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize". Ua uma ona ia tusia se tusi, ma o loo iai se vaega i le "North American Review". A o tuputupu aʻe ma aʻoaʻoina i le Iunaite Setete, sa nofo o ia mo le lima-ono tausaga i Iapani (aʻoaʻo o se polofesa ma le Univ. o Maryland), ma sa nofo mo le tele o tausaga i Atenitina.