Books
Essays
In Convo
Poetry
Short Fiction

SELECTED WORK:

BOOKS

THE L.O.V.E. CLUB (Flatiron Books, 2025) β†’ An immersive novel following three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend ⟒ TLC playlist
BEATING HEART BABY (Flatiron Books, 2022) β†’ A tender and soaring story about internet friendships, boyhood, Asia America, and what it takes to love an artist while becoming one yourself β™ͺ BHB playlist

ESSAYS

Talking to Girls in the Bathroom Line (Foglifter, 2025) β†’ Girls, girls, girls
Formation Jukebox column (Catapult, 2020-2023) β†’ On being in transition and the music that helps make sense of it all
On Cloud Nigh (SSENSE, 2020) β†’ The future belongs to unreal clouds

IN CONVO

Deb Never (them., 2021) β†’ On her EP Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Mary H.K. Choi (AAWW, 2021) β†’ On her YA novel Yolk
Yaeji (Burdock Magazine, 2020) β†’ On her mixtape What We Drew μš°λ¦¬κ°€ κ·Έλ €μ™”λ˜
Japanese Breakfast (The FADER, 2018) β†’ On her album Soft Sounds for Another Planet, and beyond
Mitski (Hyphen Magazine, 2015) β†’ On her album Bury Me at Makeout Creek

POETRY

"GIRLMATH" (DREGINALD, 2024) β†’ there is only one pronoun He Him His
β€œnotes app on night mode” & β€œwai t” (Wax Nine, 2020) β†’ Gender is like Treebeard: 'Nobody is on our side'

SHORT FICTION

Revel Nation (AAWW, 2022) β†’ "Stars, trees, lasers, lights, everything locking into nothing, everything together yet apart"
if: you can't sleep (Sine Theta Magazine, 2019) β†’ "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) β†’ "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) β†’ "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"