Writing

Nonfiction

My Pregnancy Didn’t Include a Prenatal Glow – Electric Literature (2023)

Wednesday Addams is the Ultimate Outcast – Catapult (2022)

Cannibals or Ghouls? The Elusiveness of Language in Bones and All – Literary Hub (2022)

Rihanna’s Approach to Maternity Clothes Helped Me Redefine Motherhood – Electric Literature (2022)

I Am Mother, Here Me Howl – Electric Literature (2021)

Despite its Dark Ending, ‘Ginger Snaps’ Still Made Me Want a Sibling – Catapult (2021)

Shades of Yellow Heighten the Horror of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ – Catapult (2021)

Dust – Sierra Nevada Review v. 32 (2021)

Tura Satana Taught Me to Find Power in My Asian Identity – Catapult (2021)

Illness and Disability Don’t Make You Obsolete – Electric Literature (2021)

Souvenirs from Manzanar – Hypertext Review (2020)

Dressed to Fulfill – Mixed Asian Media (formerly known as Hapa Mag) (2020)

April 21, 2020 – Bitter Melon Stay At Home Diary (2020)

These Orbits, Crossing – 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction Spring 2014

Selected Ploughshares Blog Contributions

Hidden Mother’s Maternal Haunted House – Ploughshares Blog (2022)

W. S. Merwin’s Ancestral Memory in Victoria Chang’s The Trees Witness Everything – Ploughshares Blog (2022)

The Time of Girlhood in Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People – Ploughshares Blog (2022)

The Fanfiction of A Little Life – Ploughshares Blog (2022)

Pop Song and the Literary Breakup Album – Ploughshares Blog (2021)

Searching for my Grandmother in the Heart Mountain Sentinel – Ploughshares Blog (2021), Best of the Net 2022, “Editor’s Pick” at Longreads

Selected Book and Film Reviews

Minari – New Territory Magazine Issue 11 (2021)

Surge – Spectrum Culture (2021)

Bad Candy – Spectrum Culture (2021)

Rushed – Spectrum Culture (2021)

Both Trauma and Sin: Elizabeth Miki Brina’s Speak, Okinawa – The Rumpus (2021)

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Jonathan Meiburg’s A Most Remarkable Creature – Chicago Audubon Society (April 2021)

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way – Chicago Audubon Society (December 2020)

Interviews

A Conversation with Jonathan Meiburg – Chicago Audubon Society (2021)

Chicago Audubon Society

On Discovering the Birding Journal of George Carrington Mason – September 2021

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Sandhill Cranes – March 2021

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Pileated Woodpeckers – February 2021

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Evening Grosbeaks – January 2021

Notes from a Casual Birder: On Stones, Resilience, and the Piping Plover – November 2020

Notes from a Casual Birder: The Magic of Crows – October 2020