“On a Pedestal,” L&C Magazine, 2022

“Tug-of-War,” Oregon Humanities, 2022

“The State of Waiting,” Longreads, 2021 / Craft interview on “The State of Waiting”

“Shared Breath,” Longreads, 2019 (Honorable Mention for Best American Essays)

“Towards a Thai Feminist Movement,” Tricycle, 2019

“Inheritance,” Creative Nonfiction, 2018

“Tiamat on the Treadmill,” The Rumpus, 2018

“Saving Irvington,” The Riveter, 2017

“Meet the Modern-Day Pagans who Celebrate the Ancient Gods,” Narratively, 2017

“What They Carried,” Oregon Humanities, 2017

“The Fiction of the Self,” interview with Ruth Ozeki, Buddhistdoor Global, 2017

“Jiao Wo (Teach Me)” in What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, anthology from In Fact Books, 2016

“Squash on the Hill,” Sport Literate, 2016 (written through a fellowship with Creative Nonfiction’s Writing Pittsburgh project)

“Personal Pronouns,” The Seventh Wave, 2016

“If you’re afraid of flying, the worst thing you can do is avoid it,” Quartz, 2015

“Escaping the Gaokao,” The Big Roundtable, 2015

“Mr. Chan and the Machine,” The LA Review of Books, 2013

“Circling the Mongolian Steppe,” Wanderlust & Lipstick, 2011

Columns

Women in Buddhism, Buddhistdoor Global

Riding the Trans-Siberian, Europe Up Close