Critical & Longform Essays

There’s More to Japanese Literature than Haruki Murakami // Electric Literature

I Was Raised to Believe that the End of the World was Nigh, But It’s Never Felt Closer than It Does Now // Slate

How to Grow Up Beautiful, Without Representation // Greatist

Burn This: Theatre, Music, and Language // Entropy Magazine

Passing // Ploughshares Blog

Why I don’t Like Haruki Murakami (But Why it’s Okay that You Do)

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Personal Essays

Our old house // Issue One of Empty House Press

Kinship and Trauma // Ploughshares Blog

How Studio Ghibli Brought Japan Back to Me // Issue Six of  The World of Apu

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2019 Regular Contributions to Ploughshares Blog

The Desire of Girls in Machine

The Violence of Dehumanizing Language

Narrative and Conspiracy Theories

Personal Identity and The Face: A Time Code

Affect Theory in The Hundreds

The Wandering Writer

The Messiness of Resistance