Selected Writing

NON-FICTION

Investigation for the Felony Murder Reporting Project – San Francisco Chronicle

This Tattoo is Permanent – The New Journal

INTERVIEW: Namasenda is the Pop Star of the Future –
Galore

Real Bodies: On Jenny Zhang's My Baby First Birthday –
Hyphen

Forgetting Everything –
The New Journal 

Whose Canon? Yale English Majors Reflect on the "Western Canon" –
The Politic

A Letter to Chinese Americans –
Chinese American

The young women fighting to save Chinatowns from gentrification –
Assembly by Malala Fund

Interview with Mimi Zhu (excerpts) –
Yale Literary Magazine

POETRY

Interview – Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins

Qualms – 
Yale Daily News Magazine

Apocalypse Now –
The Adroit Journal

Ode to Tilda Swinton, Ending with Empty Gut –
The Adroit Journal

Psalm Told Through Nine Gun Deaths in America – 
NowThis News

Movie Scene on a Highway Shoulder –
The Kenyon Review

FICTION

Five-Year Plan – Yale Daily News Magazine

AWARDS & HONORS

Kenyon Review Residential Writers Workshop Scholarship – 2024

Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Alumni Microgrant – 2021

Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets Fellow – 2020

Gordon Barber Memorial Prize in Poetry, Yale English Department – 2020

Davidson Fellows Honorable Mention – 2018

Brave New Voices NYC Poetry Slam Finalist – 2018

New York City Youth Poet Laureate Program Semifinalist – 2018

Kenyon Review Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize – 2017

National Student Poets Program – 2015