Personal Essays
To Grow, To Burn Things Down, To Start Again ※ Catapult, May 2021
The Best 80 Cents I Ever Spent ※ The Goods by Vox, August 2020
1997: Radiohead, OK Computer ※ SixtyEight2OhFive: A Playlist Project, 2020
On the Songs that Make You Feel Strong ※ Catapult, April 2020
On the Nature of Legacies and Joanna Newsom’s “Sapokanikan” ※ Catapult, January 2020
Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Taught Me to Break Free from the Model Minority Myth ※ Catapult, December 2019
My Immigrant Mom Hates When I Spend Money on Her. I Do It Anyway. ※ ELLE Magazine, May 2019
As a Woman of Color, I’m Told I Can’t Show Anger—So I Let Courtney Love Do it for Me ※ Catapult, January 2019
The Flatlands ※ New South Journal, Fall/Winter 2019
When "I Love You" Was Too Much, My Grandmother Said it with Pork Stir Fry ※ Food52, August 2018
A Meditation on Control ※ shondaland, July 2018
An Homage to the Terrible L.A. Clippers ※ Medium Feature Story, May 2018
99 Ranch Market is the Asian Supermarket Parents Love (And Kids Tolerate) ※ Epicurious, May 2018
The Chicken Soup of Chinese Aunties ※ TASTE, April 2018
A Thai Chicken Pizza, Just for Us ※ Eater, April 2018
On Being a "Good" Daughter" ※ Entropy Magazine
Our Karaoke Could Be Your Life ※ Oyster Review
Episode 41: Vivian Lee, Myles Tanzer, and Miranda Popkey ※ The Catapult Podcast
Dating, By the Book ※ Oyster Review
Interviews
Agents & Editors: Jamia Wilson ※ Poets & Writers Magazine, September/October 2023
Agents & Editors: Rakia Clark ※ Poets & Writers Magazine, March/April 2023
Agents & Editors: Annie Hwang ※ Poets & Writers Magazine, September/October 2022
Morgan Parker’s YA Debut Novel is a Portrait to her Teenage Self ※ ZORA, September 2019
An Ethnography of the Self: Talking with Morgan Parker ※ The Rumpus, January 2018
What is Asian American Literature, Anyway?: An Interview with Novelist Celeste Ng ※ Oyster Review
Interview with Sanaa Hamid on Cultural Appropriation and Art ※ Within Color
Older work
Anatomy of a Fareej ※ World Policy Journal, Winter 2010-2011 issue, "Megalopolis: The City of the 21st Century"
Against Oppression—Kianoush Ramezani’s Drawings ※ World Policy Journal
Chaw ei Thein Fights Burma’s Junta with Performance and Paintings ※ World Policy Journal
Street Artist JR’s Empowering Art ※ World Policy Journal
Supporting Culture in the Face of Injustice ※ World Policy Journal
From Sound and Numbers, Art ※ World Policy Journal
CMJ 2011: EMA, Islands ※ Evil Monito
CMJ 2011: Atlas Sound, Braids ※ Evil Monito
CMJ 2011: Dum Dum Girls, Metronomy ※ Evil Monito
CMJ 2011: Zola Jesus, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ※ Evil Monito
CMJ 2011: Eleanor Friedberger, Wild Flag ※ Evil Monito
Acrobatics Everyday Brings Musical Back Flips to Irvine ※ SoundBoard
A few closing notes from Sunday at the Junction ※ SoundBoard
Punk rock dance party — F Yeah! ※ SoundBoard
Ponytail excites a small but devoted crowd at UCI ※ SoundBoard (a Los Angeles Times Music Blog)
Here is a Song ※ Tinyletter