Author of the novel Harmless Like You. Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Starling Days is out in April 2020. Short work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts.
More by this author
Is the Green You See, the Green I See?
As my brain absorbed these other names, the colors seemed to shift. The names themselves were changing how I saw the colors.
The Cactus Mother: Nine Plants, Zero Kids
I used to tell people I needed to write a novel before I could consider offspring. I have written one novel. I am considering purchasing a fern.
The Woman Scared of Her Own Kimono
I feel unworthy to wear the uniform of my inheritance.
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For the Love of Nooks: A Comic
I spent a lot of time in my nook, tucked away and dreaming.
Every Flavor a Ghost: A Comic
Sometimes even just a minor taste of something brings old ghosts back to me.
The Life and Times of Bernice Bing
A lesbian Chinese American painter, she defied definition, which is why I was so fascinated by her.
