Writing

Recent

Swan Song – Broccoli (Fall 2024) *print only

The Last Best Ghost Boy – Sewanee Review (Summer 2024)

The Ghost and the Machine – Shift Space / United States Artists (Spring 2024)

Selected Essays

“The Monster in the Mirror” (six-part Catapult column)

1. My Father and the Dragon King (January 2020) *A Memoir Monday “Best of the Week” pick

2. The Faint Spirits: On Ghosts, Grief, and Motherhood (February 2020)

3. You Gave the Enemy a Face—and That Face Was Mine (May 2020)

4. What the Religious Right Gets Wrong About Monsters (July 2020)

5. How I’m Learning to Manage My Rage as a Bipolar Woman (November 2020)

6. The Three Corpses (January 2021) *Shortlisted for a 2021 Chicago Review of Books Award

Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity? – The New York Times (May 2020) *A version of this article appears in print on May 10, 2020, Section ST, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: What’s in a Name? Quite a Lot.

The Year We Became Cats – Catnip/Broccoli Magazine (Summer 2023)

A Good Day to Dye Hard – Pom Pom Mag (Summer 2023)

Killing Your Cake and Eating It Too – Cake Zine (November 2022)

Legolas Bends the Space-Time Continuum – Catapult (September 2022)

Tamago – The Willowherb Review (September 2021)

Writing Down the Ghosts – Catapult (September 2021)

Ali Wong’s Memoir Isn’t Just About Asian Americans– It’s Written to Us and For Us – Electric Literature (December 2019)

A Reading Genealogy – Oh Reader (September 2020) *Print only

I’m a Mother With Bipolar Disorder – Family Story (November 2019)

The Night Parade – What God Is Honored Here anthology (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) *Print only

Return, and Return – Passages North *Print only

And Still They Try to Tell Us – Diverging (2019)

Dreamscape 8: The Anatomy of Wanting and Forgetting – Bat City Review (2015)

Dreamscape 2: Dear Pinocchio – Baltimore Review (2013)

Dreamscape 1: A Healing – The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (2013)

In the H – Niche Magazine (2012)

Miles – Escape into Life *Pushcart Prize nominee (2011)

Halloween and the Pandemic – Woman’s Day (September 2020)

Short Stories

Black Holes Primp and Mourn the Stars – The Bureau Dispatch (October 2022)

Eden – And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing Anthology (Alternating Current Press, 2022)

The Sole Keeper – [PANK] (2015)

Savasana – r.kv.r.y (2012)

Articles & Interviews

As former Senior Editor at Anti-Racism Daily, I also contributed to the newsletter, which reached 100,000+ subscribers and 350,000+ Instagram followers. Some of my most popular ARD articles discuss Japanese American incarceration and the model minority myth.

NILPPA Builds Framework for Understanding Programs – Library Journal (August 2020)

Write Between the Lines: Four Women Discuss Race, Art, and Writing – Superstition Review Blog (co-written, 2017)

42nd Street Review – Third Coast Review (2016)

The Shape of Things Review – Third Coast Review (2016)

Safe Spaces at Sappho’s Salon – Third Coast Review (2016)

Interview with Mare Swallow [+ Part Two] – Gapers Block (2015)