Complex sentence: She was a Regent's Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote "Dying Young" and where she also became friends with the author, Whitney Otto, whose work she both admired and encouraged.
Split into simpler sentences: She was a Regent's Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where she wrote "Dying Young". She became friends with the author, Whitney Otto, whose work she both admired and encouraged.