Personal Essays
'The More Loving One' / Asia Art Archive / May 2024
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'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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'Mi madre y yo' / Casapaís / April 2022 [Spanish]
'My Mother and Me' / Asymptote / July 2022 [An English (self-)translation]
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'The Art of Delusion: Reading Don Quixote on Jeju Island' / Off Assignment / April 2022
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'Dream Diary' / Nassau Weekly / March 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
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Fiction
​'Panama' / The Kenyon Review / June 2024
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'Heaven Lies Somewhere in Between' / Isele / May 2024
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'Nothing Like the Old Masters' / The London Magazine / February/March issue 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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'The Next Station Is' / Joyland / April 2023
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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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RECOGNITION
Semi-finalist for The Adroit Journal's Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction program
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Reportage
NEWS
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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 vote / Reuters / 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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'International Students Don't Want to Study in the US Anymore' / The Nation / October 2020
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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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'What About the International Students?' / The Nation / June 2020
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'Indigenous Initiatives' / Princeton Alumni Weekly / February 2020
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'Princeton Students are Sitting In for Title IX Reform' / The Nation / May 2019
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For a full list of Reuters articles (Brazil bureau), click here.
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FEATURES
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'The Senior Thesis at 100: Back to the Future' / Princeton Alumni Weekly / May 2024
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LONGFORM / NARRATIVE​
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'And the Cure for Millennial Burnout Is…This Giant Penguin' / Narratively / November 2020 (Listen to the audio version of this story here or on Spotify)
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'Climate unpredictability puts New Jersey farmers in fight for survival' / U.S. 1 / April 2020
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OP-EDS / FIRST-PERSON​
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'Student Dispatch: Wondering What Could Have Been for the Class of 2021' / Princeton Alumni Weekly / July 2021
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'As a Korean national studying in the US, I've seen how racism in America affects Asians around the globe' / Business Insider / April 2021
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'This is Not How I Pictured My Senior Year of College. But It’s Not All Bad Either' / TIME / September 2020
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'I’m an international student in the US. I’m devastated by ICE’s new guidelines' / Huffington Post / July 2020
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'Covid-19 has sent most college students home from campus. I’m one of the few still here.' / The Counter / April 2020
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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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PROFILES
Growing Green / Princeton Alumni Weekly / April 2023
(A series of profiles on Princeton alumni working in the climate space.)
Literary Criticism
& Editing
ESSAYS
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To Let an Author Die: Remembering Sylvia Plath, 60 Years On / Los Angeles Review of Books / March 2023
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BOOK REVIEWS
Along the Roads That Built Modern Brazil / The Nation / December 2024
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In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of Slavery / The Nation / October 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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'Mother, Daughter, Stranger': A Review of Cold Enough For Snow (2022) / The Oxonian Review / February 2022
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'Testimony Will Always Prevail': A Review of Aftershock (2020) / Cha: An Asian Literary Journal / April 2021
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INTERVIEWS
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An Conversation with Yi-Ling Liu / The Oxonian Review / April 2023
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An Interview with Anton Hur / The Oxonian Review / May 2022
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EDITING
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To Write Hong Kong (a column dedicated to Hong Kong writers) / The Oxonian Review
Academic Publications
​'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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'Redefining Our Climate Future: New Approaches to Writing Climate Fiction' / Wasafiri (Vol. 39, 2024)
Other
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).