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  • NUMBER ONE CHINESE RESTAURANT
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NON-FICTION:

  • The Best Place To Get Naked With Your Mom Is The Korean Day Spa (Jezebel, 2015)

  • The Three Dishes I'm Glad I Ruined (Bon Appetit, 2018)

  • My Father: The Eater, The Trickster King (Medium, 2018)

  • Nothing Is More American Than Chinese Food on Christmas (New York Times, 2018)

  • All Eyes on DC (Travel & Leisure, 2019)

  • What I Learned Working at a Chinese Restaurant (The Guardian, 2019)

STORIES:        

  • Blue Jay (Granta, 2013)

  • Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before (Guernica, 2015)

  • Parts of Summer (Glimmer Train, Issue 96)

CRAFT:

  • I Want You Bad: Can Nice People Make For Good Characters? (Glimmer Train, 2015)

  • Why Write Characters of Color? (Glimmer Train, 2015)

  • Hoarding Notes: The Uselessness of the Writer's Notebook

    (Michigan Quarterly Review Online, 2017) + others

  • Stories We Love: "When in the Dordogne" (FWR, 2018)