Publications

2026: 

▪ The 2026 O. Henry Prize Stories, forthcoming

2025:

▪ “Tenth Year,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2025

▪ The Best American Short Stories 2025 for the story “The Masterclass,” originally published in The Los Angeles Review, Fall 2025

▪ “Boy Toy,” The Southern Humanities Review, Summer 2025

▪ “Trust,” The Southern Review, Winter 2025 

Yesteryear:

▪ “The Masterclass,” The Los Angeles Review, Fall 2024

▪ “Amsterdam,” Joyland Magazine, Summer 2024

▪ “Taken,” The Georgia Review, Winter 2023 

▪ “The Paris of China,” The Boston Review, August 2022 

▪ “Happy Family,” Ursa Short Fiction Podcast, Summer 2022 / Interview with Ursa co-hosts, Dawnie Walton and Deesha Philyaw

▪ “Ex-Lives,” The Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2022 

▪ “Necessary Evils,” The Southern Review, Spring 2022 

▪ “My Son,” F(r)iction, Spring 2021

▪ “The Food Photographer,” Wildness, February 2021

▪ “Enlightenment,” The Best American Short Stories 2020, November 2020

▪ “Music, Night,” Catapult, September 2020

▪ “Enlightenment,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2019

▪ “Royals,” The Asian American Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2019

▪ “Once a Cellist,” McSweeney’s Quarterly 52, March 2018

▪ “Mrs. Li,” The UK Bath Short Story Award Anthology, Fall 2016

▪ “Roses for Auntie Mae,” The Des Moines Register, Sunday Fiction Edition, 2016.

▪ “Caterpillars,” Winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, published by Reed Magazine, 2016.

▪ “Caterpillars,” Published by Winning Writers, Fall 2016

▪ “The Golden Arowana,” second prize in The Masters Review Short Story Contest, published by The Masters Review, 2015.

▪ “Heisenberg,” Prizewinner in the 2013 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, published by Carve Magazine, Fall issue, 2013. 

▪ “The End of a Summer-Like Day,” 2011 Hyphen Magazine/AAWW Asian American Short Story Contest Runner-Up, Hyphen Magazine.