Hello! My name is Bea (they/them). I'm a second-generation Vietnamese American, a member of Generation Z (2001!), and a recent college graduate from Stanford University with a degree in Comparative Literature and a minor in Creative Writing.
For the last few years, I've had the pleasure of working in several literary and arts spaces, including the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Writing Atlas, and the Creative Writing Program and Comparative Literature Department at Stanford University. Currently, I work at Poets & Writers and am an intern at BOMB.
In many of the places I've worked, I've had specific roles as a proofreader, copyeditor, production editor, and fiction editor. As of now, I'm currently based in Minnesota, where I grew up.
General interests
Right now, my current interests on Wikipedia are copyediting and contributing to pages involving Asian and Asian American literature, as well as K-pop and East Asian pop culture.
Additionally, I've been trying to learn Japanese both for real-world purposes as well as for the sake of eventually reading Japanese literature in the original. For now, I'm using my grasp of the language to work on and research articles that may benefit from a bilingual perspective, specifically articles regarding Japanese books translated to English. I also spent about a year learning Korean, a language which I now solely use on Wikipedia for the same purpose.
Asian and Asian American literature
As part of my goal to expand Asian and Asian American literature on Wikipedia, here are the book pages I've created so far toward that end. (Author pages I created are denoted with a *.)
This barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copy edits totaling over 100,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copyediting 68 articles during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 1st Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copyediting 153,571 total words during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copyediting 12 long articles during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 5th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copyediting 3 old articles during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Longest Article, 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to Phibeatrice for copyediting one of the five longest articles – 17,042 words – during the GOCE January 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 11:41, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thanks for your work on the Sundance film! Fuzheado | Talk 20:40, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
The Women in Red Barnstar
For creating so many articles on women writers and their contributions over such a short period. Your informative articles do much to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia. Keep up the good work.--Ipigott (talk) 14:50, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
On 2 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article I Hotel (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Karen Tei Yamashita realized the structure of her novel, I Hotel, by cutting, folding, and writing on ten cardboard cubes, each representing a year in the book? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/I Hotel (novel). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, I Hotel (novel)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 3 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oh My Mother!, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the author of Oh My Mother! has written about the phenomenon of giving Asian-American girls the name "Connie"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oh My Mother!. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Oh My Mother!), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 15 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Murakami T, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Haruki Murakami owns so many T-shirts that he published a book about them? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Murakami T. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Murakami T), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 24 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Moe's Books, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in 2016 two thieves stole $350,000 worth of rare books in Oakland, California, and tried to sell some of them to Moe's Books nearby? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Moe's Books. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Moe's Books), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 27 December 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gifted (novella), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that former adult actress Suzumi Suzuki's book Gifted was nominated for the Akutagawa Prize in 2022? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gifted (2022 novella). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Gifted (novella)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 19 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Troupeau Bleu, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 1975 French jazz-funk album Troupeau Bleu has been sampled by hip-hop artists at least 142 times since the 1990s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Troupeau Bleu. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Troupeau Bleu), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 24 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article T24 Festival, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the T24 Festival was organized after a former soldier boasted online that he could set up a 24-person military tent by himself? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/T24 Festival. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, T24 Festival), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
