publications

fiction & nonfiction

Ayako is in Love with Hiroko! and the toxic workplace — Anime Feminist, December 2024

The Taurus Pilot — Anathema Magazine, December 2021

Mozzarella — X-R-A-Y, November 2021

  • nominated for the Pushcart Prize

My Cousin — Stone of Madness Press, July 2021

The Devil in New Jersey — Plum Recruit, December 2020

melting couch theory — The Daily Drunk, December 2020

The Partner of My Hormones — Mixed Mag, August 2020

Afraid to Grow Up: Gendered Rage in Aggretsuko — Anime Feminist, February 2020

Thunder Road — Glass Mountain, Issue 23, Fall 2019

poetry

“notes from the other world” & “1/2 asian girl sends the same risky text” — Marías at Sampaguitas, the MAHAL issue, July 2021

“anything she could get her hands on” — Silk Club’s “QUIET!” 05, December 2020

“the coming back” & “notes from the bus stop” — The Vibe Room, July 2019

“love poem to tagalog“ — Anak Sastra, Issue 36, July 2019

awards

1st Place in the 2018 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize in Poetry for “love poem to tagalog or five days in the philippines”

  • judged by Marlena Chertock

1st Place in the 2017 Jiménez-Porter Literary Prize in Poetry for “The Great American Dream”

  • judged by Ocean Vuong