Writing
Recent short publications:
The Guardian, “Why I Hope My Parents Won’t Read My Novel” (2024)
Electric Literature, “75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024” (2024)
Condé Nast Traveler, “Paris Pour Tous” (2023)
Travel + Leisure, “Heart and Seoul” (2023)
Electric Literature, “62 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2023” (2023)
The New Yorker, “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Radical Refusal to Explain Herself” (2022)
Vanity Fair, “It’s All in the Game” (2022)
The New York Times Book Review, “An Ode to Living With, and Despite, Pain and Mortality” (2022)
Town & Country, “The Dream Sequence” (2022)
Electric Literature, “63 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2022” (2022)
Town & Country, “Self-Care Manifesto” (2022)
Vanity Fair, “The Attack on Abortion Has Me Reflecting on My Christian Past” (2021)
Vanity Fair, “As Anti-Asian Attacks Continue, What Kind of Bystander Are You?” (2021)
Town & Country, “The Unbearable Lightness of Post-Pandemic Beauty” (2021)
Vanity Fair, “Letter to My Fellow Asian Women Whose Hearts Are Still Breaking” (2021)
The Cut, “The Willful Misunderstanding of Kink” (2021)
Vanity Fair, “Well, Then” (2021)
The Guardian, “It’s Time to Talk More About Kink” (2021)
Electric Literature, “43 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2021” (2021)
The Guardian, “Is This the Age of Opting Out?” (2020)
Town & Country, “Peacocking in the 20s” (2020)
Vanity Fair, “BTS and K-Pop Fans Strike a Blow to Support #BlackLivesMatter” (2020)
The New York Times, “I’m Grieving Now. You May Be, Too” (2020)
Bookforum, “Close to the Knives” (2020)
Vogue, “Join Us” (2019)
The New York Times Book Review, “A Dazzling, Sweetly Aching New Novel From Jacqueline Woodson” (2019)
O, The Oprah Magazine, “Why I Came Out as Bisexual” (2019)
The New York Times, “Stop Calling Asian Women Adorable” (2019)
The Guardian, “Mouth Full of Blood” (2019)
The Paris Review, “On Being a Woman in America While Trying to Avoid Being Assaulted” (2019)
Electric Literature, "Why Korean American Writers Love Alexander Chee" (2018)
New York Magazine, The Cut, "Why I Don’t Leave the House Without Putting on Black Eye Shadow" (2018)
Buzzfeed, "I’m Korean American, And I Can’t Watch The Pyeongchang Olympics" (2018)
Bomb, "Embrace the Dread" (2018)
The Guardian, "A Writer's Photographs" (2017)