Writing

I am a multi-genre writer who has published essays and short stories in publications including Strange Horizons and a W.W. Norton anthology. My themes often focus on integenerational embodiments of colonization and war. Below is a list of my publications.

 Publications

Non-fiction

• Isolated and Overburdened, Asian American Educators Struggle | Research commentary for EdSurge, January 16, 2023

• Conversation with Muriel Leung | Conversation with poet Muriel Leung about their collection, Imagine Us, The Swarm, 2021

• “I started to write the way I needed to” | Personal essay for PEN America, June 5, 2019

• The PEN Ten with the 2019 Emerging Voices | Interviews about writing with all 5 PEN Emerging Voices fellows, 2019

• “Part of Memory is Forgetting” | Personal essay included in the W.W. Norton Anthology, Inheriting the War, edited by Laren McClung. Foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa, 2017

• Interview about arts organizing | Interview in UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press Anthology, Many Bridges, One River: Organizing for Justice in Vietnamese American Communities, edited by thuan nguyen and Vy Nguyen, 2017

• Interview with Bao Phi | Interview with Bao Phi about his collection, Thousand Star Hotel, 2017

• “Bà nội” | Personal essay in Cultural Weekly, June 14, 2016

• Interview with Andrew Ahn | Interview with Andrew Ahn about his film, Spa Night, 2016

Fiction & Poetry

• “2086” | Strange Horizons, January 7, 2019

• “ask them who is doing the haunting (a Vietnamese American fairy tale)” | Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2020

Audio

• “The Echo Chambers” | Audio recording of a short story for Cog•nate Collective’s “Future Echoes” Project, imagining the future of L.A.’s Little Tokyo. Sound design by Jeffer Giang, August 2019

• “2086” | Podcast recording of “2086” in Strange Horizons, read by Anaea Lay, January 2019