Personal Essays & Reviews

We All Want to Live in the Golden Girls’ House—Don’t We?, Electric Literature, January 23, 2024.

The One-Way Ticket to Barcelona, LARB Quarterly, no. 39: Air, October 27, 2023.

Five Boxes, Cutleaf, September 2023.

Breaking the Diorama, TriQuarterly, January 15, 2020.

Losing Whiteness When You Lose Your Father, Catapult, April 11, 2019.

Loving, Hating, and Being from Texas, Catapult, September 27, 2017.

From Pacquiao to H-1B Visas: Global Asian Culture and America's Shifting Identity, Los Angeles Review of Books, February 24, 2017.

50 Shades of Regret: A Cautionary Tale About Online Dating and the Movies, Salon, February 19, 2017.

Comfort in a 50-Pound Bag, Serious Eats, June 3, 2016

Five Stages of Prince Fandom, The Rumpus, February 4, 2016.

Mole Biopsies and Other Love Notes, The Rumpus, February 4, 2016.

Women-Size: Female Image-Making and PJ Harvey, The Rumpus, December 17, 2015.

Filipino: The Five-Step Plan, Gastronomica, Summer 2015. 

I Was an Amazon Chew Toy, The Awl, January 14, 2015.

Letters to a Pitchikoo, The Morning News, June 24, 2011.

True Stories: A Piece of Cake, Nerve, June 19, 2011.