Complex sentence: When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Houston, Texas; she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.
Split into simpler sentences: When she was nine years old her parents divorced and she and her mother moved to Houston, Texas. Choi earned a B.A. in Literature from Yale University (1990) and an M.F.A. from Cornell University.