An Op-Ed on the Atlanta spa shootings in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Review of Dorothy Wang's critical book Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry.

A remembrance of poet Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan at Four Way Review.

An essay on a poem by Carol Ann Duffy at New Ohio Review.

Review of Jade Chang's novel The Wangs vs. the World. 

On growing up Asian in the South, a topic brought back by the troubling rhetoric of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

This essay arose from the response to the response to Calvin Trillin’s controversial New Yorker poem (April 2016) about Chinese food in the U.S.

This essay, which originated in a year spent in Shanghai, was brewing for twenty-five years before it found its way. 
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On the death of Adrienne Rich, for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

On Chinese food, at Prairie Schooner (to read in full may require JSTOR access). This essay was also reprinted in The Beacon Best of 2000, edited by Edwidge Danticat.