In Other Words

FICTION

• ‘Empire of Glass,’ an excerpt from Empire of Glass, in Lithub

• ‘Excerpt of Empire of Glass,’ on The Nervous Breakdown

• ‘Sight,’ an excerpt from Empire of Glass in Newfound

• ‘Thoughts of Sinking,’ an excerpt from Empire of Glass, in Kartika Review

• ‘American Nurse,’ an excerpt from Empire of Glass, in Guernica Magazine

• Flying Lessons in ‘Two Thirds North,’ Literary Journal of the University of Stockholm. Download PDF of Two Thirds North here

• Flying Lessons, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, Top 25

• Song For Chongwenmen in ‘Cha: An Asian Literary Journal’

• Excerpt in ‘Terracotta Typewriter’ Download PDF of Terracotta Typewriter Issue #4 here

• Sleeping Stones: Madeleine Editions - Sleeping Stones

NON-FICTION AND ESSAYS

• “The Current Unrest” in Litro Magazine

• “Motherwhelm is an Earworm” in Motherscope

• “Madonna del Latte” in Mom Egg Review (MER: Issue 20)

• “Weaning is a Transitive Verb” in Motherscope

• “Tandem” in Motherscope

• “If Mothering Slowly is Writing Quickly Then What is This?” in Motherscope

• “Interview with Yang Huang” in Fiction Writer’s Review

• “My Ordinary, Everyday, Boring Birth Story” in The Journal of Perinatal Education

• “It’s Rare To See a Child in the Workplace, But It Really Shouldn’t Be” in The Guardian

• “What Was The First Book You Fell In Love With?” on Lithub

• “Becoming Li-Ming’s Daughter” in On Being

• “Expat Adoptions Raise Logistical, Legal, Cultural Challenges” in the Wall Street Journal (September 2015)

• “The Rise of the Expat-preneur” in the Wall Street Journal

• “World’s Largest Freshwater Turtle Nearly Extinct” in National Geographic News

• “Tailwind, a Dispatch” in The Common (Amherst College): A Modern Sense of Place

• “China Changes Its Tune on Shark Fin Soup” reprinted in China Daily

• “Saving China,” a column reporting on environmental issues in China, in The World of Chinese Magazine

• “Water for Li-Ming” in anthology Unsavory Elements

• “Bunking with the Enemy” in anthology The Places We’ve Been

• “Wang Shuo’s Hooligan China” in The Common (Amherst College)

• “Keeping the Chinese Faith in the U.S.” in China Daily

• “Elegy for a Lost Beijing” in The Huffington Post

• “My Parents are NIMBYs: Why You Should Be Too” in The Huffington Post

• “The China Expat in Exile” in The World of Chinese Magazine

• “If at First You Don’t Conceive” in The Hairpin

• Writer/Editor, Let’s Go: China 2000 (St. Martin’s Press)

• Editor, Let’s Go: China 2003 (St. Martin’s Press)

PODCAST AND BROADCAST APPEARANCES

• “Redefining Productivity in Caregiving” on The Informed Pregnancy Podcast with Dr. Elliot Berlin

• “Why Mothers Deserve Better” on The Motherscope Podcast and Listen Notes

• Talking Empire of Glass on “I Found This Great Book” Podcast

• “On Inspiration and Writing a Novel,” interview on Author Learning Center