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
'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
'Heaven Lies Somewhere in Between' / Isele / May 2024
'Papaya' / Wasafiri / May 2023
This story was shortlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2022
An Interview with Anton Hur / The Oxonian Review / May 2022
'Mi madre y yo' / Casapaís / April 2022 [Spanish]
'My Mother and Me' / Asymptote / July 2022 [An English (self-)translation]
'Mother, Daughter, Stranger': A Review of Cold Enough For Snow (2022) / The Oxonian Review / February 2022
'I'm an international student 7,000 miles away from family. Loneliness is my new reality.' / Vox / March 2020
'What About the International Students?' / The Nation / June 2020
Faith, Spirituality & Religion
'Speaking of Silence' / Portland Magazine / January 2024
'What Prayer Is' / Sonora Review / April 2023
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ploughshares Emerging Writer's Contest
'I Gave Up English for Lent' / The New York Times / March 2022
Brazil
The Blood Diamonds of Brazil / The Nation / October 2025
Along the Roads That Built Modern Brazil / The Nation / December 2024
'Nothing Like the Old Masters' / The London Magazine / February/March issue 2024
In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of Slavery / The Nation / October 2023
Wider Image: 'Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted' / Reuters / September 2022
Lula challenges Bolsonaro's grip on Brazil evangelical vote / Reuters / September 2022
'Brazil's Munduruku tribe haunted by mercury's deadly threat' / Reuters / August 2021
'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
For a full list of Reuters articles (Brazil bureau), click here.
Hong Kong
To Write Hong Kong (a column dedicated to Hong Kong writers) / The Oxonian Review
'The Next Station Is' / Joyland / April 2023
An Conversation with Yi-Ling Liu / The Oxonian Review / April 2023
A Third Space: On Karen Cheung's The Impossible City (2022) / Los Angeles Review of Books / November 2022
'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
'Testimony Will Always Prevail': A Review of Aftershock (2020) / Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / April 2021
'To the Cat Feeder in Hong Kong' / Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / September 2020
'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)
'Panama' / The Kenyon Review / June 2024
This story was republished in The American Oxonian (2025)
Growing Green / Princeton Alumni Weekly / April 2023
'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
AI Reads (and Translates) Audiobooks / Poets & Writers / September/October 2025
AI Threatens Literary Translation / Poets & Writers / April/May 2025
To Let an Author Die: Remembering Sylvia Plath, 60 Years On / Los Angeles Review of Books / March 2023
'The Art of Delusion: Reading Don Quixote on Jeju Island' / Off Assignment / April 2022
'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')
Place Guides
A Tour Guide's Perfect Summer Day in Oxford / Princeton Alumni Weekly (July 2025)
Princeton Alumni Created This Guide to Buenos Aires / Princeton Alumni Weekly (June 2025)
Jimin Kang's Oxford / boom saloon (October 2024)
boom saloon invited me to create an alternative guide to Oxford with sites that align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).