Short Fiction
Solitude is a Human Presumption // Catapult
Selected Essays
Cooking Osechi for New Years Helped Me Overcome My Fear of Not Being “Japanese Enough” // The Kitchn
Stories from Here: Sharing the Personal Narratives of BIPOC Writers in the Midwest // Poets & Writers, November/December 2020 Issue [Print only]
Avatar: The Last Airbender and Asian History // SYFY Wire
On Tezuka Osamu’s Experimental Shorts // Issue 16 of The World of Apu
The Star Wars Expanded Universe and the Promise of Multitudes // io9
When the Emperor is a Void: Yukio Mishima and Fascism Today // Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Japan Sound Memory // The Southampton Review Online
How My Mother Protected Us from my Father and Found Solace in Art // Catapult
How Faux-Documentary Audio Dramas Trick You Into Scaring Yourself // Electric Literature
There’s More to Japanese Literature than Haruki Murakami // Electric Literature
How to Grow Up Beautiful, Without Representation // Greatist
Our old house // Issue One of Empty House Press
Passing // Ploughshares Blog (Best of the Net nominated)
How Studio Ghibli Brought Japan Back to Me // Issue Six of The World of Apu
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Selected Regular Contributions to Ploughshares Blog
Tokyo Ueno Station’s Anti-Stereotypical Portrayal of Homelessness
The Reimagined Tales of Matsuda Aoko’s Where the Wild Ladies Are
What Do Our Monsters Say About Us?
The Myth of the Perfect Translation
Womanhood in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs
The Violence of Dehumanizing Language
Narrative and Conspiracy Theories
