Essays

“None of the Above: On Writing a Biracial Protagonist,” Lit Hub (2023)

“A Monstrous Burden,” The American Scholar (print only) (2022)

“How to Fictionalize New Technology Even As It’s Constantly Changing,” LitHub (2022)

“7 Books Centered on People of Color and Technology,” Electric Lit (2022)

“Speaking for the Trees: Richard Powers’s The Overstory,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2018)

“You’ve Got the Wrong Song: ABC’s ‘Nashville’ and Country Music Feminism,” Los Angeles Review of Books (2013)

"In Mong Kok," The Monarch Review (2013)

“Dramatic Irony: Variations on a Theme or, Where is My Romeo?” Grist: The Journal for Writers (print only) (2012)

“Five Reasons to Read Edith Wharton,” Paper Darts (2012)

Selected Food Writing

"Edible Insects: Chili-Lime Crickets and Mexican Culinary Traditions," KCET​ (2018)

"Fried Green Tomatoes," Remedy Quarterly (print only)