Distinctions & Awards
2022 Los Angeles Press Club National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award Winner
2022 Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Journalism Award 2nd Place
2021-2022 Catapult Memoir Generator with Megan Stielstra
2021 Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest Winner
2021 Tin House Summer Workshop with E. J. Koh
2021 Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship with Amanda Fortini
2021 City Lit Workshops with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
2021 Periplus Fellowship Finalist
2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee
2022 Los Angeles Press Club Southern California Journalism Award 2nd Place
2021-2022 Catapult Memoir Generator with Megan Stielstra
2021 Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest Winner
2021 Tin House Summer Workshop with E. J. Koh
2021 Idyllwild Arts Writers Week Fellowship with Amanda Fortini
2021 City Lit Workshops with Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
2021 Periplus Fellowship Finalist
2021 Pushcart Prize Nominee
Essays
On knitting and inheritance - This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community, and Connection by Jen Hewett
On names and cultural identity - Zora
On ritual, religion, and anxiety - Exposition Review (Longreads Editors' Pick, Pushcart Prize nominee)
On comfort food - Shondaland (Included in the anthology Accolades)
On 'Crazy Rich Asians' and community - HelloGiggles
On watching Japanese reality show 'Terrace House' as a Japanese American - BuzzFeed News
On 'The Mindy Project,' and 'wrong' ways of expressing ethnic identity - Bitch Media
On cultural appropriation and wearing kimono while mixed-race - The Boston Globe
On making clothes by hand - HelloGiggles
On meeting my long-lost uncle - HelloGiggles
On disclosure - Discover Nikkei
On names and cultural identity - Zora
On ritual, religion, and anxiety - Exposition Review (Longreads Editors' Pick, Pushcart Prize nominee)
On comfort food - Shondaland (Included in the anthology Accolades)
On 'Crazy Rich Asians' and community - HelloGiggles
On watching Japanese reality show 'Terrace House' as a Japanese American - BuzzFeed News
On 'The Mindy Project,' and 'wrong' ways of expressing ethnic identity - Bitch Media
On cultural appropriation and wearing kimono while mixed-race - The Boston Globe
On making clothes by hand - HelloGiggles
On meeting my long-lost uncle - HelloGiggles
On disclosure - Discover Nikkei
Little Weirds*
"Dusk" - Winner of the Black Warrior Review 2021 Nonfiction Contest, coming soon
"Leaving East Peoria" - Hobart After Dark
"Prayer" and "Our Toilet Has Googly Eyes," - City Lit, Between the Lines 2021: An Anthology of Creative Writing
"Minerals" - Milk Candy Review
"El Scorcho" - Exposition Review
*Name borrowed from Jenny Slate's book, which I love. These are short, hard-to-categorize pieces — between poetry and prose, sometimes with a little magic.
"Leaving East Peoria" - Hobart After Dark
"Prayer" and "Our Toilet Has Googly Eyes," - City Lit, Between the Lines 2021: An Anthology of Creative Writing
"Minerals" - Milk Candy Review
"El Scorcho" - Exposition Review
*Name borrowed from Jenny Slate's book, which I love. These are short, hard-to-categorize pieces — between poetry and prose, sometimes with a little magic.
Interviews
In-depth interviews with artists and makers—from novelists to cartoonists to a forager and the queen of punch-needle embroidery.
More
Reporting, cultural criticism, Los Angeles city guides, and more.
