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Hasanthika Sirisena interviewed me for the Fiction Writers Review. We discuss frame narratives, cultural appropriation and Chinese writers and authors who have inspired me - to name just a few topics. You can read more...
‘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 Stone
NON-FICTION AND ESSAYS
“What Was The First Book You Fell In Love With?” on Lithub
“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, forthcoming US Edition (Summer 2013)
‘Bunking with the Enemy’, forthcoming, 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)
“"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
“It’s Rare To See a Child in the Workplace, But It Really Shouldn’t Be”, in The Guardian
(Coming Soon) “Mom Egg”
PODCASTS
“Why Mothers Deserve Better” on Motherscope and Listen Notes
EVENTS
“Sleeping Stones”
“Yang Huang’s Book Launch”
Accolades:
Author Fellow at MVICW Writing Conference in June 2020