2019 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP WINNER
My chapbook, Other Small Histories, won the 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship award (judged by Patricia Smith), and published in 2020 by the Poetry Society of America.
Read the coda (notes and addenda) here.
Select Poems
- “That Kind of Love,” Tampa Review, Summer 2023
- “Photograph: June 22, 1984,” Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, May 2023
- Editor’s Selection: “Jade Woman,” “Pantoum for a Single Bowl of Jook,” “The Chicken is a Phoenix,” “Wuxi,” “Why Some Women Go to War,” Tupelo Quarterly, TQ27, Aug 2022
- “Providence,” The Common, Dec 2020
- “Take 30 with Food,” Poetry Northwest, Vol. XV, Summer/Fall 2020
- “American Born,” CALYX Journal, Vol. 31:2, Summer/Fall 2019
- “A Chinese Great Grandmother, Name Unknown,” New Delta Review, Dec 2018
- “Three Wives” – “totem,” “courtyard,” “first position,” “your husband’s second wife’s granddaughter has some questions for you,” “grave,” “a woman of god considers her husband’s first wife,” “rumor,” “likeness,” “hospital corners,” “an act of repair,” “at the quay,” “lucky number,” “afterlife,” “a night at the movies,” “fairy tales and ghost stories,” Tupelo Quarterly, TQ16 , Nov 2018
- “Haoles, Hawaiians and Everyone In Between,” The Shanghai Literary Review, Fall/Winter 2018
- “bequest,” “par avion,” “daybreak,” “obeisance,” The Delmarva Review, Nov 2018
- “At the American Chamber of Commerce Dinner in Beijing (1995),” Columbia Journal, Apr 2018
My work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and have been finalists for multiple contests and awards.