Poems
“Photo of Seven Paper Sons,” Massachusetts Review (forthcoming)
“A Genealogy of Knowing,” Beloit Poetry Journal (forthcoming)
“Angel Island: Oral History,” Beloit Poetry Journal (forthcoming; semi-finalist, 2026 Adrienne Rich Award)
“Photo of Chew-Min,” Poetry Northwest, Summer & Fall 2026
“Asian American Historic District,” “To Great Great Uncle, Who Worked 4-5 Years for Mr. Stanford at Warm Springs,” and “Elegy,” The Adroit Journal, Issue 57, April 2026
“A Genealogy of Discarded Things,” MQR Mixtape, Issue 19: Haunting, December 2025
“THIS ISLAND IS TO BE ABOLISHED!” Black Warrior Review, Vol. 52.1 Fall/Winter, 2025
“萍,” Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive, Nightboat Books, 2025
“Angel Island State Park,” The Adroit Journal, Issue 49, April 2024
“The Year of My Father’s Cancer I Watched 120 Hours of Star Wars,” Waxwing, Issue 29, Fall 2023
“Departure,” Waxwing, Issue 29, Fall 2023
“Three Months Since,” Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, May 2023
“The Bookcase,” Palette Poetry, February 2023
“Twelve Chinese Confessions, 1963,” Apogee, Issue 15, February 2021
“Asian Lady Beetle,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume 6, Issue 3, April 2020
“竹升 jook-sing,” BOAAT (republished in 出入口 Passages by Liana Fu), Summer 2019
“tank grrl,” Hot Metal Bridge, Issue 22, February 2018
“hypothesis,” The Offing, March 2016
“affirmation,” Third Woman Pulse, December 2015
Book
In the Tongue of Ghosts (First Word Press, 2016) is a collection of the first poems I wrote and performed, examining identity, belonging, and coming of age in the Bay Area as a grandchild of Chinese immigrants. Between diaspora angst and unrequited crushes, these early articulations map the obsessions I continue to write through: history and myth, language and death, poetry as a practice of mourning and becoming.
Cover art by Alex Chiu