WRITING

Publications (Nonfiction) 

“The Strange Comfort of Jet Lag,” New York Times Magazine, October 25 2022
“What Derry Girls Knows About Adulthood,” The Atlantic, October 15 2022
“Watching Spirited Away Again and Again,” The Atlantic, September 20 2022
“Don’t Judge I’m Glad My Mom Died By Its Title,” The Atlantic, August 19 2022

“How To Inhabit The World,” Guernica, April 4 2022

“This Is How A Friendship Ends,” Catapult, March 17 2022

“Drive My Car Pushes The Limits Of Language,” The Atlantic, March 5 2022

“New Directors in a New Year,” Chicago READER, February 11 2022

“Why are enoki mushrooms suddenly so expensive?” The Takeout, December 21 2021

“If Silence Is The Cost of Great Ramen, So Be It,” The Atlantic, October 30 2021

“Between Parent and Child,” Catapult, October 19 2021 

“For Anxious Loneliness: Mushroom Wafu Spaghetti,” Catapult, September 9 2021

“The story of Stick Castle: On Play, Creativity, and Public Pandemic Art,” Chicago READER, August 7 2021

“Feed Yourself Like Someone You Love,” Catapult, July 21 2021

“FMA and Me: Reckoning with Anime as Japanese and American,” Catapult, June 9 2021

“CJFC brings Japanese Indie Cinema to the Midwest,” Chicago READER, May 25 2021

“How a theater survives a pandemic (or two),” Chicago READER,  March 25 2021

“Raya and the Last Dragon’s Representation Dilemma,” Chicago READER, March 4 2021

“On Skinship,” Catapult, January 27 2021

“Giving myself a break: on oyatsu,” Chicago READER, January 20 2021

“Ode to a Chicago Public School,” Chicago READER, September 3 2020

“I love natto and if you think it’s disgusting I don’t care,” The Takeout, August 21 2020

“The International Murder Case That Changed My Reporting Career,” Narratively, August 3 2020

“Padma Lakshmi’s Flirty Charm Is What Makes Taste The Nation So Special,”  Vulture, July 15 2020

“On Mary’s Virginity and How the Purity Myth Harms Women,” Catapult, April 29 2020

“On Martha and Perfect Womanhood,” Catapult, March 05 2020

“On Delilah and the Villains We Make Of Women Who Seek Power,” Catapult, January 14 2020

“On Esther’s Vengeance and the Beauty of Women’s Rage,” Catapult,  September 19 2019

“The Uneven Historical Horror of The Terror: Infamy,” The Atlantic, September 2 2019

“In Immigrating from Japan, I lost Language, Home, and Pokemon,” Catapult, August 28 2019

“I Wanted to Get Married but I Wasn’t Ready To Lose Myself,” Catapult, August 15 2019

“You Should Definitely Eat Spaghetti In Japan,” EATER, July 17 2019

“On Eve’s Temptation and the Monsters We Make of Hungry Women,” Catapult, July 15 2019

“Notes on Citizenship,” Longreads, April 2019

“How Game of Thrones Lost Its Perspective,” Vulture, March 16 2019

“The Oscar-Nominated Mirai Is More Than A Moving Tale Of Childhood,” The Atlantic, February 18 2019

“The Favourite And The Chaotic Way Women Move,” The Atlantic, January 24 2019

“Suicide in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko,” The Ploughshare’s Blog, September 26 2018

“Hafu: On The Fetishization and Mistranslation of a Biracial Identity,” Catapult, July 16 2018

“Nukumori: When the Distance Between You and Your Loved One Disappears,” Catapult, June 6 2018

“On Jellyfish,” Wildness Journal, June 2018

“Magdalene,” Indiana Review, April 2018

“Yuutsu: When Mental Health is Mistranslated,” Catapult, April 30 2018

“Unpacking the Fictional Japan of Isle of Dogs,” The Atlantic, March 31 2018

“Aishiteru: How To Say I Love You When The Language Doesn’t Exist,” Catapult, March 26 2018

“Setsunai: When You Need a Word to Hold Both Joy and Sorrow,” Catapult, February 26 2018

“Daiji: On Living Between Two Cultures and Learning What’s Important,” Catapult, January 22 2018

“The True Meaning of KFC Christmas,” EATER, December 21 2017

“A Theory of Ghosts,” Collapsar, November 28 2017

“Why My Family Takes a Thanksgiving Vow of Silence,” Catapult, November 22 2017

“What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About Mixed-Race Identity,” Catapult, October 16 2017

Publications (Fiction)

“If You’re Waiting For A Sign,” Catapult, January 31 2020

Publications (Poetry)

“Salome Dances The Seven Veils, Asks For The Head of John The Baptist In Return,” Asian American Writer’s Workshop,  April 18 2017

“Hiroshima is a city of light,” RHINO, November 7 2016

“the last time you took an airplane,” “eve to her maker; in defense of hunger,” Alice Blue Review, 2015