Essays
Pink Martini’s America, All Classical's Artist Anthology: 40 Creatives of the Pacific Northwest (2024)
Keep the Joy Intact, All Classical's Artist Anthology: 40 Creatives of the Pacific Northwest (2024)
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 in 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, HuffPost.
Fiction
The Subway Map in the Bathroom, Quarter After Eight.
Capital of Hope, ANMLY.
Blood Bank, CommonLit.
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. Republished in Weave: A Zine Featuring Kundiman Writers from the Pacific Northwest.
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 anthologized in While We're Here (Earnshaw Books, 2015).
Kaleidoscope So Innocent, Klipspringer Magazine.
Film
Climate Artists (Producer). A five-part documentary series that explores how the climate crisis informs and inspires artistic expression, and how artists—through the lens of diverse mediums—can use their work to engage awareness and foster compassion for our planet. A co-production of ALL ARTS and The Serica Initiative. Winner of Best Episodic at 2024 Climate Film Festival.
Voices Rising: What’s Next for Asian Americans in the Arts? (Producer). A 90-minute special that captures an evening of profound panel discussions and captivating performances featuring prominent artists from the Asian diaspora. A co-production of ALL ARTS, Exploring Hate, and The Serica Initiative.
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 Exploring Hate and The Serica Initiative. 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 Asian American trailblazers from across the country in five stories of belonging and exclusion; resilience and hope; and solidarity in the face of hate. A co-production of Exploring Hate and The Serica Initiative.
Miscellany
#372 and #1: A Winning Combo (Co-Writer). A comic about a family in a Chinese take-out restaurant. Anthologized in 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.