Complex sentence: From 1983-1985, Philip apprenticed to Nagayoshi Kazu, a master potter in southern Kyushu and she worked as a journalist for the Yomiuri Shimbun, then earned an MFA at Columbia University as the Woolrich Fellow in Fiction.
Split into simpler sentences: From 1983-1985, Philip apprenticed to Nagayoshi Kazu, a master potter in southern Kyushu. She worked as a journalist for the Yomiuri Shimbun, then earned an MFA at Columbia University as the Woolrich Fellow in Fiction.