Books
Essays
In Convo
Poetry
Short Fiction

SELECTED WORK:

BOOKS

THE L.O.V.E. CLUB (Flatiron Books, 2025) → An immersive novel following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend
BEATING HEART BABY (Flatiron Books, 2022) → A tender and soaring story about internet friendships, boyhood, Asia America, and what it takes to love an artist while becoming one yourself ♪ Press, reviews, etc. ♪ BHB playlists: BEATING HEART BEATS, Santi POV, Suwa POV

ESSAYS

Formation Jukebox column (Catapult, 2020-2023) → On being in transition and the music that helps make sense of it all
On Cloud Nigh (SSENSE, 2020) → The future belongs to unreal clouds

IN CONVO

Deb Never (them., 2021) → On her EP Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Mary H.K. Choi (AAWW, 2021) → On her YA novel Yolk
Yaeji (Burdock Magazine, 2020) → On her mixtape What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던
Japanese Breakfast (The FADER, 2018) → On her album Soft Sounds for Another Planet, and beyond
Mitski (Hyphen Magazine, 2015) → On her album Bury Me at Makeout Creek

POETRY

"GIRLMATH" (DREGINALD, 2024) → there is only one pronoun He Him His
“notes app on night mode” & “wai t” (Wax Nine, 2020) → Gender is like Treebeard: 'Nobody is on our side'

SHORT FICTION

Revel Nation (AAWW, 2022) → "Stars, trees, lasers, lights, everything locking into nothing, everything together yet apart"
if: you can't sleep (Sine Theta Magazine, 2019) → "You were killed by your lover. Your heart was betrayed; your body, broken. You have a choice to make"
I Like Your Bangs (Terraform, 2018) → "When we finally meet in person, years after I abandoned my account, I have to rub my eyes to make sure I hadn’t just blinked through a particularly vivid afterimage"
Dream Political Party (The New Inquiry, 2017) → "In RPG style, you take on the role of an overwhelmed outsider trying to make his way through a party and figure out which ideological hottie to go home with"