Distinctions & Awards

Chautauqua Janus Prize Finalist

St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist

California Arts Council Emerging Artist Fellow

Sonoma County Writers Camp BIPOC Fellow

Black Fox Literary Magazine Award Winner

Hedgebrook Radical Craft Retreat with T Kira Madden

VONA Memoir Workshop with Reyna Grande

Tin House Summer Workshop with E.J. Koh

VONA Prose Residency with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Atticus Review Flash Creative Nonfiction Contest Finalist

Millay Arts Residency Finalist

Rhinebeck Residency Finalist

Civvy Award National Finalist

Charles C. Dawe Innovation in Publishing Award

Carnegie Mellon Opportunity Grant

Selected Writing

The Washington Post

The room was dimly lit. Wedding guests were seated on the floor, eyes closed, some crying.

Narratively

Featured in the NYT Now App

It is probably best not to attend weddings when you are freshly separated from your spouse.

The Seventh Wave

The first time I remember hearing the term anti-vaxxer was in 2014 while hosting dinner for new friends.

Slant’d Magazine

My grandmother’s name was Harris.

When she took this name, she was a young nursing student in China just shy of five feet tall.

The Rumpus

In Focal Point, Qi allows the grief from her mother’s early passing to seep between each poem, to recede and return.

Black Fox Literary Magazine

The next day, she still seems far away, opening parched lips for ice chips through an oxygen mask.

Medium: Editor’s Picks

When young people look for themselves in entertainment, they’re simply seeking a sign of acceptance.

Reader’s Digest

In the Wake of Hate Crimes, Who Will Stand Up for Asian Americans?

Ozy

We can’t help but hope that despite inevitable differences, Americans can keep talking.

Human Parts

“Don’t ask her about her eyelashes.”
My mother said
on a drive up to Boston.

The Dewdrop

I once loved a man who made me feel
as big as the earth,
as all-encompassing as the sky:

I was all he could see.

Be Yourself

Feeling hopeless about the state of the world? Sit down to dinner with a group of people who don't agree with you.

P.S. I Love You

We don’t go to couples counseling because we’re afraid our relationship isn’t working. We go because we believe in our future.

Mochi Magazine

“Shuji, get off AOL!” screams 7th grader Maya Ishii-Peters, right before the opening credits of Hulu’s hit comedy series “PEN15.”

Taste of Home

Mama made this dish with such ease, it almost seemed like she could charm the chicken into preparing itself.

ART+marketing

“Sometimes when you have a strong idea, it takes shape on its own. The most work often goes into propping up a weak idea.”