Essays
“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
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
Interviews
with Kayla Maiuri on Mother in the Dark, BOMB Magazine, 2022
with Jessamine Chan on The School for Good Mothers, Literary Hub, 2022
with Forsyth Harmon on Justine, The Believer, 2021
with Julia Fine on The Upstairs House, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2021
with Naima Coster on What’s Mine and Yours, Electric Literature, 2021
with Nancy Jooyoun Kim on The Last Story of Mina Lee, Apogee Journal 2020
with Sanaë Lemoine on The Margot Affair, The Millions 2020
with Cathy Park Hong on Minor Feelings, The Guardian 2020
with Jaquira Diaz on Ordinary Girls, Apogee Journal 2019
with Angie Cruz on Dominicana, Apogee Journal 2019
with Chanelle Benz on The Gone Dead, The Rumpus 2019
with Amy Feltman on Willa & Hesper, The Rumpus 2019
with Nicole Chung on All You Can Ever Know, The Rumpus 2018
with R.O. Kwon on The Incendiaries, Apogee Journal 2018
with Lillian Li on her debut novel, Asian American Writers’ Workshop 2018
with Jamel Brinkley on A Lucky Man, Apogee Journal 2018
with SJ Sindu on Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Apogee Journal, 2018
with Emily Jungmin Yoon on poetry & Issue 09, Apogee Journal 2017
with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Water & Salt, Apogee Journal 2017
with Sarah Ladipo Manyika on Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, Apogee Journal 2016
with David Mura on The Last Incantations, Apogee Journal 2014