Nancy grew up in Shanghai and near Detroit. Her poetry, plays, and prose are published by The Offing, poets.org, Asian American Writer's Workshop's The Margins, film distribution company A24, and others. Her novel-in-progress was a finalist for the UK's Peters-Fraser-Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize, the winner of an NYU Global Research Initiative Fellowship in Shanghai, a VelvetPark Residency in Brooklyn, and a ChaNorth Residency in Pine Plains, NY. She has a poetry MFA from NYU. She works at a cemetery in Brooklyn.