poetry
- A Korean Woman Walks Into a Bar in Chicago (The Margins, January 2026)
- Ghost Eulogy (Reed Magazine, issue 156 | AWP Intro Awards winner)
essays
- My Name and Other Names (fugue, issue 64 | 2023 prose contest winner)
- Real Magic (EVENT, issue 52*1 | 2022 nonfiction contest, 3rd place)
recognition
- Finalist, 2026 American Literary Review Awards, Poetry
- Finalist, 2025 Arts & Letters Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Short List, 2024 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest, Nonfiction
- Finalist, 2021 Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction
a few book reviews
- The Rockford Anthology, ed. Rachel León (Chicago Reader, October 2025)
- Little Mercy by Robin Walter
- Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
- The Girl Who Became a Rabbit by Emilie Menzel
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