Speaking Terms // Non-fiction

I thought I saw my father.

It’s Always Later Than You Think // Fiction

Leo was the kind of woman who pressed a sausage into a hot pan until its skin burst. She liked the sound of a body’s limits.

Bonus Child // Essay

It’s easier to trash fairytales and racism than it is to face the simplicity of my conundrum: that I’ve inherited the defunct reality of a stranger’s manifest desire.

No Such Palace // Fiction

There’s a father in the chapel. He is a sliver of a man, with horse-thick hair and bird-thin bones.

Fury Pegging the Colonizer // Essay

In that sliver of air, however risky, however breathless to take, there could be a full-beat glitch where a woman like me code-switches from underneath, and we’d all believe it to be true.

Quarters // Non-fiction dispatch

Is it perverted to seek out a colonial street for comfort? Do I feel connection, or transmission, in such a place despite the undertow of its violence?

German Translation published in West End, Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung, Ed. 01 - 2023

Danger of Drifting // Poetry

At a spa on the southern belly of Japan, my mother and I walk into black sand. We are willing to be buried.

Racism in Germany: A Chinese-American Reckoning // Op-Ed

As an Asian woman who spent her life in the West, I can assure you that the pain of understanding yourself through the gaze of whites is double-edged: it kills you, then shows you how to survive.

In Brooklyn, Homage to Swedish Pop Queen

Backgrounder: Media Censorship in China