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.
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
The Sole Keeper – [PANK] (2015)
Savasana – r.kv.r.y (2012)
Articles & Interviews
As Senior Editor at Anti-Racism Daily, I also contribute to our newsletter, which reaches 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)
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