Short Fiction
Dramatis Personae // new sinews
Whistle in the Dark // Ironwood Issue – MYRIAD Digital Zine
In the Beginning, She was the Sun // new sinews
Solitude is a Human Presumption // Catapult
Selected Articles
Why did these monks in Japan choose to mummify themselves? // National Geographic Magazine
Color Bursts: The Utopian Art of Avery Williamson // Belt Magazine
Climate Grief and Collective Trauma: On Kataznya Boni’s GANBARE! WORKSHOPS ON DYING // The Cleveland Review of Books
What Has Seeped into the Animals, the Plants, the Soil? // Belt Magazine
Producing Meaningful Asian American Stories in Minneapolis // Belt Magazine
Why Linguistically Diverse Audiobook Casting Matters // Electric Literature
Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police and the Dangers of Forgetting // Michigan Quarterly Review Online
These Women are the Modern Money Experts to Follow // Real Simple
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
How Faux-Documentary Audio Dramas Trick You Into Scaring Yourself // Electric Literature
There’s More to Japanese Literature than Haruki Murakami // Electric Literature
Selected Personal Essays
Crossing Paths // Minnesota Conservation Volunteer
Strange Bird // Parts:Whole Anthology
Minnesota Sound // Belt Magazine
Reclaiming Shinrin Yoku in the Forests of Minnesota // Outside Magazine
Cooking Osechi for New Years Helped Me Overcome My Fear of Not Being “Japanese Enough” // The Kitchn
Japan Sound Memory // The Southampton Review Online
How to Grow Up Beautiful, Without Representation // Greatist
Passing // Ploughshares Blog (Best of the Net nominated)
Selected Contributions to Ploughshares Blog
Loneliness and Parasocial Relationships in The Woman in the Purple Skirt
The Absurdity of Labor in There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job
Minor Feelings’ Exploration of Solidarity
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
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