Essays & Short Stories
“The Anxiety of Growing Up Asian American.” New York Magazine.
“Parenting One’s Parent.” Front-page op-ed essay in Times of India.
“Heavy Lifting.” Essay on weightlifting and divorce at Goop.
“Together While Apart.” Essay on dating after divorce in The Washington Post.
“Books and their Harbors.” Essay on the solace of books and bookstores in The Kenyon Review.
“On Father’s Day.” Essay in We Found Time.
“The Talk.” Short story in VQR.
“Wanting.” Winner of the 2017 Neil Shepard Prize in Fiction.
“To Kill A Mockingbird and Ferguson.” Essay on race in America.
“Gilded.” Short story in Five Chapters.
“Persistence Over Resistance.” Personal essay in Publishers Weekly.
Anthologized Writing
“Letting Go” in Lonely Together: 20 Celebrated Writers on the Joys and Struggles of Being Alone. Fellow writers include Jhumpa Lahiri, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, and Maggie Shipstead. Edited by Natalie Eve Garrett (Catapult Books).
“Fathers” in Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology (Skyhorse, 2021).
“Into the Dark.” Essay in A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, with essays by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Tayari Jones (UMass Press, 2015).