"A Head Is a Territory of Light" | The Yale Review, forthcoming.
On migraines, family trees, phototropism and the tending toward light.
"On Compression" | The Iowa Review, December 2023. Republished in Satellites, August 2024.
On Pokemon Go, teleportation, relationships across distance and time.
"Plastic Bag" | The Offing, December 2023.
On a spate of men looking for plastic bags (short fiction).
"Departures" | Kenyon Review, September/October 2022. Notable Essays, Best American Essays 2023.
On domestic workers in Hong Kong, global care work economies, loving as employment.
"Faithful Interpretations of Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood For Love" | Fence, November 2021.
On mistranslating a film.
"A Feeling That Exceeds Us" | Michigan Quarterly Review, September 2021.
On the Japanese Imperial Army, comfort women, generational trauma, absolute forgiveness.
"My Grandmother Glitches the Machine" | The Rumpus, March 2021. Runner-up, 2020 Landfall Essay competition.
On the joy of glitches, communicating across distance and language, grieving.
"Inventory" | Speculative Nonfiction, December 2020.
On all things made in China.
"Mourning Pattern of the Chinese Gooseberry" | The Pantograph Punch, June 2020.
On the agricultural history of kiwifruit, Chinese diaspora in New Zealand.
2022 Fall Residencies, Tin House, received for essay collection manuscript, Hometown.
2021 Summer Session Scholarship, School for Poetic Computation, received for Reading, Writing, Compiling session.
2019/20 Iowa Arts Fellowship, the University of Iowa Graduate College.
Featured in Strong Words: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition, ed. Emma Neale. Otago University Press, November 2021.
Featured in A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand, ed. Alison Wong and Paula Harris. Auckland University Press, June 2021.
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