fiction
non-fiction
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forthcoming: novel excerpt,"The General Sherman Incident, 1866," in Georgia Review, 2024
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"Bread of Lifers," 2022 Short Story Advent Calendar by Hingston & Olsen
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"Hiding Spot," New England Review, September 2022
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"End of the Dynasty," winner of Litmag's 2022 Anton Chekov Award for Flash Fiction
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"Ghost / House," Best of Korea, May 2022
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"Motherhood," Story Magazine, Spring 2022
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“Strangers Here,” The Santa Monica Review, Fall 2021
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"Benches Are For People," Jellyfish Review, 2021
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“Adam & Eve,” The Bare Life Review, Vol. 4, 2021
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"After Leopold," Carve, Spring 2021
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“The Omari and the Pango,” finalist in the 2020 Porter House Review Editor’s Prize, Feb. 2021
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“Strangers Here,” Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Winter 2020
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Excerpt from “Seoul,” The Rumpus, Sept. 2020
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“Bread of Lifers,” TriQuarterly, July 2020
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“The Prince of Mournful Thoughts,” Ms. Aligned 3, 2020
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“Premonition,” Jellyfish Review, 2020
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“King of the Gipsies,” Faultline Vol. 28, Spring 2019
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“Not Usual For a Korean,” The Parhelion Literary Magazine, July 2019
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“The Good Girl,” Pidgeonholes, 2019
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“Daughter-less,” Five on the Fifth, 2019
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“A Summer in Paris,” The Hunger Journal, 2019
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“Older Women” Jellyfish Review, 2019
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“Wrong Number,” Mental Papercuts, 2019
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“Picasso’s Blue Period,” Meridian, 2019
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“You Light Up My Life,” Avatar Review, 2010
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“Magdalena,” MANOA, 2002
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“Mr. Oh,” MANOA, 2001
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Five Great Books About the Korean Diaspora, Literary Hub, Oct. 20, 2020
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10 Contemporary Books by Korean American Writers, Electric Literature, Oct. 13, 2020
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Caroline Kim on Mariko Nagai's Georgic: Stories, Marvelous Paragraph Project, 2020
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A Year in Reading: 2020, The Millions
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“Bay Area Asian American authors share books that inspired them,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 14, 2020
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Madeleine L'Engle, NEH, 2004
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“Woody Guthrie: A Hard Travelin’ Man,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 27, Number 4, July/August 2006
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“Little Sure Shot: The Saga of Annie Oakley,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 27, Number 3, May/June 2006
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“Through the Lens of Jack London,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 27, Number 2, March/April 2006
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“The Woman Who Would Be King,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 26, Number 6, November/December 2005
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“Albert C. Barnes: The Medici of the New World,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 25, Number 5, September/October 2005
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“Isaac Bashevis Singer: Master Storyteller,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 25, Number 4, July/August 2004
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“The Soul of a Free Man: Toussaint-Louverture,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 24, Number 6, November/December 2003
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“West by Northwest with the Corps of Discovery,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 23, Number 6, November/December 2002
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“The Treasures of Genghis Khan,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 23, Number 5, September/October 2002
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“Beyond the Lightning: Benjamin Franklin,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 23, Number 4, July/August 2002
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“Tales of Beggars and Nuns, Pirates and Kings,” Humanities Magazine, Volume 23, Number 3, May/June 2002
poems
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“Love, in this Century,” 60th Anniversary Issue of The Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2021
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“Telling Time,” Pleiades, Summer 2020
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“Is This Misanthropy or Are You Just Lonely?” Grey Sparrow Press, Summer 2011
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“The Boys,” Spinning Jenny, Summer 2001
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“Night Seasons“; “Love in this Century,” The Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1996
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“Surviving”; “This is the Way Things Happen,” Green Mountains Review, Spring/Summer 1996
book
reviews
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Review of Mariko Nagai’s "Georgic: Stories,” Hyphen Magazine, April 22, 2011
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Review of Brian Leung's "Take Me Home," Hyphen Magazine, Jan 17, 2011
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“The Magic Kingdom,” Austin Chronicle, Feb 23, 2001
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“I Like Being Killed: Stories,” Austin Chronicle, Dec 14, 2000
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“Ali and Nino,” Austin Chronicle, Oct 20, 2000
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“Anthropology,” Austin Chronicle, Sept 22, 2000
favorites
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Fiction gives reality a human shape, Benjamín Labatut, Louisiana Channel
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for the love of literary magazines, Things to do while waiting to die, Benjamin Davis
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When You Gonna Get a Real Job: Philip Glass and Devnoté Hynes Compare Notes, NPR
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Sexile by Jaime Cortez and Adela Vazquez
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Michael K. Williams Breaks Down His Career, Vanity Fair
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Mario Levrero in Conversation with Mario Levrero, The Believer
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Lovely Day, Bill Withers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYi7uEvEEmk
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Hilary Mantel on How Writers Learn to Trust Themselves, Lithub, 2020
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Jade Sharma Reads Dear India, AAWW, 2017
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The Sweetest Debut: Jade Sharma on Why Hemingway and Hardy Are Overrated, Flavorwire, 2016
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Telling the Hards Truths w. Morgan Parker, wmfa podcast, 2019
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Leslie Jamison and Catherine Lacey’s E-mail Conversation About Narcissism, Emotional Writing and Memoir Novels, Huffpost, 2017
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Brad Watson, “Your Beautiful Mind in Chains: A Discussion of the Use of Craft to Make Art,” Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2012
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Asian American Melancholia & Disassociation, David L. Eng and Shinhee Han, AAWW, 2019