essays

“‘Did you write this because you wish your mother was dead?’: No — the exact opposite,” Salon

"Heaven Lake: On Korean Reunification and My Father’s Death," Guernica

“Mammoth,” wildness

"Suzuki and Kawasaki in the Dominican Republic," The Rumpus

"Love (or Live Cargo)," Electric Literature

• Performed for NPR/PRI’s Selected Shorts with stories by Etgar Keret, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Phil Klay, Helen Phillips, and Anthony Tognazzini at Symphony Space (April 2017); “Morality Tales” broadcast with stories by T.C. Boyle, Phil Klay, and Ron Carlson (January 2019)

"North South East West," Los Angeles Review of Books

"But Who Is Listening Now?" Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins

• Featured in "Gucci Mane and Ballet: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing," The Atlantic

"What I Want to Say," Apogee Journal

"Women and the Global Imagination: The Center of the Universe," Prairie Schooner blog

"Open Houses: On Race, Identity, and Looking for a Place to Live," The Butter

"This Year I Rewrite My Novel" series, The Kenyon Review blog

op-ed

“Feeling helpless during the pandemic? You’re not alone,” San Francisco Chronicle

Short Fiction

"La Jungla," The Offing

• Reprinted in Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, Bloomsbury Academic (November 2018)

"A Shade of Blue," City Arts Magazine

"Desire," Amerasia Journal