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The following is a (somewhat less) comprehensive list
of my published works organized by theme.

(Click here for groupings based on genre!)

Language, Translation,
& Migration

'In That Other City, One I Knew and Loved' The London Magazine / October 2025​​​

​'Home is Where the Heart Used to Be' / The HongKonger / Feb 2025

'The More Loving One'Asia Art Archive / May 2024

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'Translating le vrai americain: Multilingualism in Henry James's The Ambassadors and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room' James Baldwin Review (Vol. 10, 2024) 

This article won the JBR's Graduate Student Essay Award

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'Heaven Lies Somewhere in Between'Isele / May 2024

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'Papaya'Wasafiri / May 2023

This story was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2022

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An Interview with Anton HurThe Oxonian Review / May 2022​​​​​

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'Mi madre y yo'Casapaís / April 2022 [Spanish]

'My Mother and Me' / Asymptote / July 2022 [An English (self-)translation]

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'Mother, Daughter, Stranger': A Review of Cold Enough For Snow (2022) / The Oxonian Review / February 2022​

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'I'm an international student 7,000 miles away from family. Loneliness is my new reality.'Vox / March 2020

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'What About the International Students?'The Nation / June 2020

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Faith, Spirituality & Religion

​'Speaking of Silence'Portland Magazine / January 2024

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'What Prayer Is'Sonora Review / April 2023

This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest

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'I Gave Up English for Lent'The New York Times / March 2022​

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Brazil

The Blood Diamonds of BrazilThe Nation / October 2025

 

Along the Roads That Built Modern BrazilThe Nation / December 2024

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'Nothing Like the Old Masters' The London Magazine / February/March issue 2024

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In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of SlaveryThe Nation / October 2023

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Wider Image: 'Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted'Reuters / September 2022

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Lula challenges Bolsonaro's grip on Brazil evangelical voteReuters / September 2022

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'Brazil's Munduruku tribe haunted by mercury's deadly threat'Reuters / August 2021

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'Singapore's Shopee changes the game in Brazil's e-commerce sector'Reuters / August 2021

 

Wider Image: 'Scholar by day, street-sweeper by night, one Black man navigates Rio's racial divide'Reuters / July 2021​

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For a full list of Reuters articles (Brazil bureau), click here.​​​​​

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Hong Kong

To Write Hong Kong (a column dedicated to Hong Kong writers) / The Oxonian Review 

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'The Next Station Is' Joyland / April 2023 

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An Conversation with Yi-Ling LiuThe Oxonian Review / April 2023

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A Third Space: On Karen Cheung's The Impossible City (2022)Los Angeles Review of Books / November 2022

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'Some Strangers I Know Better Than Others'The Oxonian Review / June 2022

This story was excerpted in A Personal History of Home anthology curated by Jennifer Wong

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'Testimony Will Always Prevail': A Review of Aftershock (2020)  / Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / April 2021

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'To the Cat Feeder in Hong Kong'Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / September 2020

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'Lessons from a Borrowed Home'Nassau Weekly / November 2019​​​​​​​

Climate & Environment

​'Redefining Our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction'Wasafiri (Vol. 39, 2024)

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​'Panama' / The Kenyon Review / June 2024

This story was republished in The American Oxonian (2025)
 

Growing GreenPrinceton Alumni Weekly / April 2023

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'Climate unpredictability puts New Jersey farmers in fight for survival' / U.S. 1 / April 2020

Publishing & Books

Restless Books' Immigrant New Writing Prize Finds New Underwriter / Publishers Weekly / September 2025

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AI Reads (and Translates) Audiobooks / Poets & Writers / September/October 2025

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AI Threatens Literary Translation / Poets & Writers / April/May 2025

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To Let an Author Die: Remembering Sylvia Plath, 60 Years OnLos Angeles Review of Books / March 2023

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'The Art of Delusion: Reading Don Quixote on Jeju Island'Off Assignment / April 2022

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'On Streets and Subways in South Korea, Poetry Hides in Plain Sight'Atlas Obscura / August 2020 (featured in Poetry magazine's Harriet blog: 'In South Korea, Poetry's Everywhere')

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Place Guides

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A Tour Guide's Perfect Summer Day in Oxford Princeton Alumni Weekly (July 2025)

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Princeton Alumni Created This Guide to Buenos AiresPrinceton Alumni Weekly (June 2025)

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Jimin Kang's Oxford boom saloon (October 2024)

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boom saloon invited me to create an alternative guide to Oxford with sites that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

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Personal Blog*

*I kept up this personal blog for close to a decade, and like so it documents a significant period of my life—I'm no longer updating it as of 2022, but consider it a fun archive of personal stories if you will!

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