Selected Publications (75+ Literary Markets)
Creative Nonfiction
"I'm Sorry I Accidentally Super Liked You on Bumble, but Now That I Have Your Attention When Does a Hill Become a Mountain" selected by Jill Christman as the runner-up in Sweet Lit's 2024 Flash Essay Contest. "And You Think of the World, Fire" published in Saranac Review's Special Mini-Issue: Making Art in Times of Crisis. "I Stand Exposed in Search of Air" published in University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine's The Examined Life Journal (Issue 10). "Unhinge Me" published in great weather for MEDIA's A Shape Produced by a Curve anthology. "Penguins in Boxes or Solving for the Equation of Home," Reed Magazine (2023) "A Ringing in Your Ears That Would Disappear By Morning," The Rumpus (2016).
Poetry
The Color Wheel (Terrapin Books anthology, forthcoming 2026), Asian American Writers' Workshop (2024), Constellation of Kisses (Terrapin Books, 2019), Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life With Coffee (World Enough Writers, 2019), Rattle (2009), DIAGRAM 14.4 (2014) and DIAGRAM 5.5 (2005), Fourteen Hills 17.2 (2011) and Fourteen Hills 11.1 (2005), Indiana Review (2008), and Magma.
Selected Awards, Grants, and Residencies
Hybrid chapbook long-listed at Small Harbor Publishing (2025). Sweet Lit 2024 flash essay creative nonfiction runner-up. Artist Trust GAP grant recipient (2022). Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Winner (2018). Pushcart Nominations (2018, 2011). Mineral School Summer Visiting Artist (2018). Jack Straw Writing Fellow (2018). Semi-finalist for Brittany Noakes Poetry Award (2018). Finalist Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, Cultural Weekly (2017). Best of Entropy Essays (2017). Best of the Net Nominations (2011, 2009). Semi-finalist Dana Awards (2011). Best of the Web Nomination (2009). Semi-finalist Crab Orchard Review, full-length poetry book contest (2009). Finalist Best of Net (2009). Puffin Foundation grant recipient (2008). Semi-finalist Black Lawrence Press, Black River Chapbook Competition (2008, 2007). Semi-finalist Black Lawrence Press, Hudson Prize Full-length Competition (2008). Finalist Kundiman, Vincent Chin Memorial Prize (2004).
Creative Nonfiction
"I'm Sorry I Accidentally Super Liked You on Bumble, but Now That I Have Your Attention When Does a Hill Become a Mountain" selected by Jill Christman as the runner-up in Sweet Lit's 2024 Flash Essay Contest. "And You Think of the World, Fire" published in Saranac Review's Special Mini-Issue: Making Art in Times of Crisis. "I Stand Exposed in Search of Air" published in University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine's The Examined Life Journal (Issue 10). "Unhinge Me" published in great weather for MEDIA's A Shape Produced by a Curve anthology. "Penguins in Boxes or Solving for the Equation of Home," Reed Magazine (2023) "A Ringing in Your Ears That Would Disappear By Morning," The Rumpus (2016).
Poetry
The Color Wheel (Terrapin Books anthology, forthcoming 2026), Asian American Writers' Workshop (2024), Constellation of Kisses (Terrapin Books, 2019), Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life With Coffee (World Enough Writers, 2019), Rattle (2009), DIAGRAM 14.4 (2014) and DIAGRAM 5.5 (2005), Fourteen Hills 17.2 (2011) and Fourteen Hills 11.1 (2005), Indiana Review (2008), and Magma.
Selected Awards, Grants, and Residencies
Hybrid chapbook long-listed at Small Harbor Publishing (2025). Sweet Lit 2024 flash essay creative nonfiction runner-up. Artist Trust GAP grant recipient (2022). Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award Winner (2018). Pushcart Nominations (2018, 2011). Mineral School Summer Visiting Artist (2018). Jack Straw Writing Fellow (2018). Semi-finalist for Brittany Noakes Poetry Award (2018). Finalist Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, Cultural Weekly (2017). Best of Entropy Essays (2017). Best of the Net Nominations (2011, 2009). Semi-finalist Dana Awards (2011). Best of the Web Nomination (2009). Semi-finalist Crab Orchard Review, full-length poetry book contest (2009). Finalist Best of Net (2009). Puffin Foundation grant recipient (2008). Semi-finalist Black Lawrence Press, Black River Chapbook Competition (2008, 2007). Semi-finalist Black Lawrence Press, Hudson Prize Full-length Competition (2008). Finalist Kundiman, Vincent Chin Memorial Prize (2004).