Selected Poems / Short Prose
Foglifter Press (forthcoming): “In Which My Speaker Would Say Their Name Without Fear” & “dysphoria; or, self as improvisation”
wildness (2023): “vanishing point”
Southern Humanities Review (2023): “Ars Poetica: Lyric by River I Am Always Running Toward”
ANMLY (2023): “preliminary notes for an essay whose conclusion still feels out of reach” & “in response to being told to take up more space”
Gigantic Sequins (2023): “Still Life; or, For Moments I Hold One Hand in My Other” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
The Journal (2022): “In Which I Try to Make More Gentle My Revolt Against My Own Smallness” & “Contrapuntal Sestina in Which I Refuse to Perform the Disappearing Act” (nominated for Best of the Net)
Waxwing (2022): “Because Aren’t We All Just Learning to Feel Loved,” “in which my body is not disastrous,” & “In Want of Crossing”
REMAKE (2022): “twenty-first century ghazal in which i am afraid to say [ ]” (finalist for the 2022 Editors’ Award)
Tinderbox Poetry Journal (2022): “Contrapuntal Ghazal After Birth and Before Resurrection” & “Field Notes on Living, Perpetually, on the Brink of Tragedy” (finalist for the Majda Gama Editors’ and Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Prizes)
Lantern Review, Asian American Futures: Youth Folio (2021): “The Surgeon”
The West Review (2021): “Triple Sonnet for Leaving My Country of Birth” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Ghost City Review (2021): “JFK International Airport: August 2019”
Hominum Journal (2021): “The Box” & “Tuscan Nocturne”
FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art (2020): “An Adoptee’s Attempt at Autobiography” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
SOFTBLOW (2020): “Carnival After Dark” & “The Fish”
The Ekphrastic Review (2020): “Walk Within the Garden As If It Were a Garden”