Winters was born in the United States and has lived in Singapore since she was seven years old. She attends Princeton University, where she has studied poetry and fiction under Danez Smith, Monica Youn, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Joyce Carol Oates. She writes on mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and hyperacusis, as well as her experiences of being a queer and disabled woman of color and an immigrant.
