2022 IPPY AWARD WINNER (SILVER, MULTICULTURAL NONFICTION)
2021 IPPY AWARD WINNER (BRONZE, ESSAYS)
2015 HAWAIʻI BOOK PUBLISHERS’ ASSOCIATION
KA PALAPALA POʻOKELA AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
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- New title in Bloomsbury Publishing’s Object Lessons series (forthcoming)
- “Artifact,” a hybrid essay about my 10+ year estrangement from my brother, appeared in Short Reads (2025)
- “Head of the Table (Joyce Chen)” appears in the anthology, Fast Famous Women, edited by Gina Barreca, Woodhall Press (2025)
- “Platitudes,” Fast Fallen Women, edited by Gina Barreca, Woodhall Press (2023)
- “Kin,” River Styx Magazine (August 2023)
- “Three Wives,” Best of Tupelo Quarterly, Tupelo Press (2023)
- Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, edited by Darien Hsu Gee with Carla Crujido — Woodhall Press (2022); 2022 IPPY Award winner (Silver, Multicultural Fiction)
- Allegiance: Micro Essays — Haliʻa Aloha series, Legacy Isle Publishing (2020) – Editor’s Pick, BookLife; 2021 IPPY Award winner (Bronze, Essays)
- “Lesson Plans 01-03: On Age Dropping, Botox, and Being an Asian-American Woman at Fifty“ appears in the anthology, Fast Funny Women, edited by Gina Barreca — Woodhall Press (March 2021), and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The anthology was a 2021 Foreword INDIES gold winner in the nonfiction/humor category.
- Writing the Hawai‘i Memoir: Advice and Exercises to Help You Tell Your Story — Watermark Publishing (2014); 2015 Hawaiʻi Book Publisher’s Association Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence
- “Pele in Therapy,” Don’t Look Back: Hawaiian Myths Made New, edited by Christine Thomas — Watermark Publishing (2011)
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