Personal Essays
'The More Loving One' / Asia Art Archive / May 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 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
'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 Green / Princeton 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 On / Los Angeles Review of Books / March 2023
BOOK REVIEWS
In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of Slavery / The 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 Liu / The Oxonian Review / April 2023
An Interview with Anton Hur / The Oxonian Review / May 2022
EDITING
To Write Hong Kong (a column dedicated to Hong Kong writers) / The Oxonian Review