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Personal Essays

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

'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

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

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

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

'Dream Diary'Nassau Weekly / March 2021

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

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

Fiction

'Panama' / The Kenyon Review / June 2024

'Heaven Lies Somewhere in Between'Isele / May 2024

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

'Papaya'Wasafiri / May 2023

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

'The Next Station Is' Joyland / April 2023 

'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

RECOGNITION

Semi-finalist for The Adroit Journal's Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction program

Reportage

NEWS

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

Lula challenges Bolsonaro's grip on Brazil evangelical voteReuters / 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

'International Students Don't Want to Study in the US Anymore' / The Nation / October 2020

'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')

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

'Indigenous Initiatives' Princeton Alumni Weekly / February 2020

'Princeton Students are Sitting In for Title IX Reform' / The Nation / May 2019 

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

FEATURES

'The Senior Thesis at 100: Back to the Future'Princeton Alumni Weekly / May 2024

LONGFORM / NARRATIVE

'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)

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

OP-EDS / FIRST-PERSON

'Student Dispatch: Wondering What Could Have Been for the Class of 2021'Princeton Alumni Weekly / July 2021

'As a Korean national studying in the US, I've seen how racism in America affects Asians around the globe'Business Insider / April 2021

'This is Not How I Pictured My Senior Year of College. But It’s Not All Bad Either'  / TIME / September 2020

'I’m an international student in the US. I’m devastated by ICE’s new guidelines' / Huffington Post / July 2020

'Covid-19 has sent most college students home from campus. I’m one of the few still here.' / The Counter / April 2020

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

PROFILES

Growing GreenPrinceton Alumni Weekly / April 2023 

(A series of profiles on Princeton alumni working in the climate space.)

Literary Criticism
& Editing

ESSAYS

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

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Along the Roads That Built Modern BrazilThe Nation / December 2024

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

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

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

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

INTERVIEWS

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

An Interview with Anton HurThe Oxonian Review / May 2022

EDITING

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

Academic Publications

Other

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). 

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