Essays
Friend in Me, Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
Making the Grand Romantic Gesture, Catapult.
To the Train Station Fortuneteller, Off Assignment.
Opinion: Shang-Chi changes script on Asian masculinity in a time of increased anti-Asian hate, International Examiner.
Writing into the Unknown: A Conversation with Peter Ho Davies, The Rumpus.
The Interminable Bento, Kitchen Work.
How a dated cell phone challenged everything I knew about China, The China Project. Republished on New Global Normal and read on the Sinica Network podcast China Stories.
‘Finding Yingying’: Chinese pain and the empathy deficit, The China Project.
Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America, Literary Hub.
Henry’s End, Kitchen Work.
White Wedding, Red Wedding, SAGE Magazine.
Strangers In a Place Called Home, LOST.
The Good Nurses of Busia County, The Huffington Post.
Fiction
The Subway Map in the Bathroom, Quarter After Eight.
Capital of Hope, ANMLY.
Tomorrow Will Be Even Brighter, The Seventh Wave. Nominated for 2024 Best of the Net.
South Dakota, Jack Straw Writers Anthology Vol. 25 (Jack Straw Cultural Center, 2021). An excerpt from Transplants.
Petaluma, LEON Literary Review.
Classifieds, The Shanghai Literary Review.
Blackout, The Anthill. An excerpt from What Never Leaves (Wilder Voice Books, 2012).
If Not for the Melon, Beijing Cream. Winner of the Beijing Cream Flash Fiction Contest and published in the anthology While We're Here (Earnshaw Books, 2015).
Kaleidoscope So Innocent, Klipspringer Magazine.
Film
Between Black & White: Asian Americans Speak Out (Co-Producer). A three-part series about communities building bridges, confronting racism, discovering surprising connections, and fighting hate - together. A co-production of The Serica Initiative and WNET, America’s flagship PBS station. Official selection of the 2024 Seattle Asian American Film Festival and the 2024 Phoenix Film Festival.
be/longing: Asian Americans Now (Co-Producer). A digital series that profiles five Asian American trailblazers and their stories of belonging and exclusion, resilience and hope, and solidarity in the face of hate. A co-production of The Serica Initiative and WNET, America’s flagship PBS station.
Miscellany
#372 and #1: A Winning Combo (Co-Writer). A comic about a family in a Chinese take-out restaurant. Published in the anthology American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption (Routledge, 2019).
Bright Lights, Nothing’s Alright (Screenwriter). A short film about a narcoleptic from the United States who exposes his new life in rural China as an English teacher. Winner of the Encouragement Award at the 2011 DVXuser FictionFEST Contest.
It's Not Jackie Chan (Co-Screenwriter and Actor). The pilot episode of a sitcom about seven foreigners who discover the pitfalls of friendship, dating, and cultural differences in rural China.
Getting Lucky in Kentucky (Producer). A podcast for Oberlin OutLoud about a spring break service learning trip with Open Ground in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.