Documentary
“The Great Journey: The Story of Korean Americans in the US,” KBS, November 2025
Essays
“How to Keep Writing When You’re Convinced Your Book is a Disaster” in Poets and Writers, Sept/Oct 2025
“Memory, Care, Protection” in Literary Hub, April 2025
“Spot On” in Harper’s Bazaar, May 2024
“The Stone Home, My Second Novel, Was Crafted From Shocking Historical Truths” in Electric Literature, April 2024
“Thinning the Line: On Multilingual Literature, Cultural Memory, and Writing as Translation” in Poets and Writers, May/June 2024
“I Was the Only Girl on My School’s Wrestling Team” in The Cut, March 2024
“How to Keep Going” in Poets and Writers, January/February 2022 issue
“Native Flowers and True Names” in Catapult: Don’t Write Alone, November 2021
“Heart of Dinner is Serving Up Hope” in Glamour Magazine, November 2021
“Slow Living with Korea’s Silent Vloggers” in Elle Magazine, May 2021
“Ode to Burt’s Bees Deep Cleansing Cream” in Harper’s Bazaar, May 2021
“Where I Write” in Catapult: Don’t Write Alone, April 2021
“Translation and the Family of Things” in Guernica, October 2019
“Writers and Readers: Breaking Boundaries” in Booklist Reader, February 2019
“A Year in Reading” in The Millions, December 2018
“Editorial Outtake: If You Leave Me“ in American Short Fiction, November 2018
“Why I Wear My Hanbok” in Elle Magazine, October 2018
“Now that Hollywood is interested in Asian stories, here are other books that should be movies” in The Washington Post, 2018
“Like You Know Your Own Bones” in The Paris Review, 2018
“On Monolids and the Language of Beauty” in Nylon, 2018
“Craft Capsule: “Unlikable” Characters” in Poets & Writers, 2018
“Craft Capsule: Multiple Narrators” in Poets & Writers, 2018
“Craft Capsule: The Art of Research” in Poets & Writers, 2018
“Craft Capsule: Who Are You?” in Poets & Writers, 2018
“Looking North from the Edge of Two Koreas” in Literary Hub, 2018
“Reading Resistance in Translation” in The Millions, 2018
Reviews
O Beautiful by Jung Yun, The Washington Post, 2021
In the Country of Women by Susan Straight, The Washington Post, 2019
Blood Sisters by Yideum Kim, Korean Literature Now, 2019
Useful Phrases for Immigrants by May-Lee Chai, The Washington Post, 2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee, The Washington Post, 2018
Short Fiction
“Solee” in Electric Literature’s Recommending Reading, 2017
“Solee” in the PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017 anthology, 2017
“Solee” in The Southern Review, Winter 2016. Listen to an excerpt here.
Also: Early Work, circa 1994