ESSAYS & STORIES

“I’m Not a “Global Citizen” but I’m Happy to be Transnational”
November 2019
University of Nebraska Press Blog

“Mr. Chen’s Mountain”
February 2019
Pacific Standard
*Chosen as a Longreads Pick

“The Great Land Swap”
November 2018
Pacific Standard

"No One Will See Me Again Forever"
Issue 4
PANORAMA: The Journal of Intelligent Travel (Editor's Choice)
*Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

"The Imagined Parakeet: Invention and Fact Irrelevance in the Speculative Essay"
April 2017
TEXT

"They Have Forgotten Many Things"
Winter 2016/2017
The Iowa Review

"Sandy and Yolanda: Storms of Memory"
December 2013
Asia Literary Review

"Dispatches from Manila"
November 2008 - May 2009
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency

"The Bells of Balangiga"
February 2009
The Wall Street Journal

"All Good Things are Surprises"
Winter 2007
Narrative Magazine

"Hanukkah Lights"
December 2005
NPR