Books
- The World's Lightest Motorcycle (Zephyr Press, forthcoming 2021)
- Hour of the Ox (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
Winner of the 2016 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal
Finalist for the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award
Chapbook
- Last Train to the Midnight Market (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
Anthologies
- They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, "In the Animal Garden of My Body," (forthcoming from Blue Oak Press, 2021)
- You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, "Origin / Adoption," (Workman Publishing, April 2021)
- Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment & Healing, "Yellow American Woman" (Beacon Press, 2020)
- The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, "Invocation," (Orison Books, 2020)
- Norton’s Introduction to Literature: Florida International University Edition, “Buenos Días, Miami," edited by Dr. Amy Huseby (W. W. Norton, 2019)
- Ink Knows No Borders: Poems on the Immigrant and Refugee Experience, "Origin / Adoption," (March 2019)
- Best Small Fictions, "The Sea Urchin," chosen by Amy Hempel, 2017
- Bettering American Poetry, "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," edited by Kaveh Akbar, jay dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Muriel Leung, Camille Rankine, and Michael Wasson, 2016
- Best New Poets, "Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo," chosen by Tracy K. Smith, 2015
Selected Poetry
- "A Working Theory of Eyes" in West Trestle Review (Mar/Apr 2021)
- "Marco Polo in America" in Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal @ Washington College: "Shade Issue" (Spring 2021)
- "Even America's Dearest Underdog" and "Forgiveness, Perhaps" in Kenyon Review Online (Nov/Dec 2020)
- "Mythology" in Pleiades, "Korean American Women Feature" (Aug 2020)
- "Driving Down Old Cutler Road" in Best American Poetry blog feature: "For Summer: Florida Poets" (29 August, 2019)
- "Meditation on Warm Bread, Torn Open" and "Invective Against the Mosquito" in Hong Kong Review (Summer 2019)
- "Ode to This Small Joy" in Orion (Autumn 2018)
- "Opening the Palm" in The Massachusetts Review (Vol. 59, Issue 4, Winter 2018)
- "Conversation I Seem to Have With Too Many People" in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, "Poets Resist: 2018 Midterm Elections Special Feature" (6 November 2018)
- "In the Animal Garden of My Body" in The Academy of American Poets: Poem-A-Day (5 November 2018)
- "Elegy in Red," "Lucky," and "Poem in Handfuls" in Cordella Magazine (August 2018)
- "Ghost Mantis" in collaboration with Elizabeth Terhune, Broadsided Press (August 2018)
- "Most Famous Sheep in the World" in The Ellis Review (19 July 2018)
- "On Perseverance" in Texas Review (Summer 2018)
- "Certain Ailments" in The Sun, "Love and Justice" theme guest-edited by Crystal Williams (June 2018)
- "Triptych for Catalina Ouyang" in Conclusion and Findings (Spring 2018)
- "Cuckoo's Child" in Small Orange (October 2017)
- "Poem in Which I Forget Whether I Wanted Anything Else Back Then" in Supporting Women Writers in Miami (SWWIM) Every Day (4 Oct 2017)
- "Many-Faced Poem" in The New York Times : "America Today, in Vision and Verse" and "How Poems Inspire Pictures" (14 July 2017)
- "Restitution for the Grandson" and "The Last Supper" in Southern Humanities Review (summer 2017)
- "Letter With One Hundred Circles" in The Georgia Review (spring 2017)
- "Self-Portrait at Fifteen with Father" and "Self-Portrait at Eleven with Complicity" in Raleigh Review (spring 2017)
- "Digging into the City" and "Threshold" in Narrative Northeast (January 2017)
- "There Is No / Erasing 1948," "Culaccino," and "Poem in Handfuls" in Devil's Lake (Fall/Winter 2016)
- "An Inventory of Race," "Fetish," and "Ghost Organ" in Moledro Magazine (December 2016)
- "Brother Returns as Sunflower" in The Adroit Journal
- "Apodyopsis" in Wildness
- "Returning Home" and "Sijo for Early Spring, Year of the Boar" in Dusie
- "Above the Thin Shell of the World" in Split This Rock Poem of the Week (30 September 2016)
- "Origin / Adoption," "On the Corner of Commodore and Main," and "Many-Faced Poem" in Connotations Press guest-edited by Roy G. Guzman
- "Brother Returns as Octopus" and "Last Half of a Letter from Home" in Scalawag Magazine
- "Anti-Elegy" and "Brother Returns as Dragonfly" in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal
- "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" in HEArt Online, "Let Me Love Me" issue guest-edited by Fatimah Asghar
- "The Pearl Divers' Daughters," "Remedies for Grieving," and "Oath" in The Margins at the Asian American Writers' Workshop
- "Generosity," "Fox in Deep Winter," and "Herdboy and Weaver" in So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & Arts
- "Vase of Ashes" in Tupelo Quarterly (Finalist for Issue 9 Poetry Prize, judged by Tracy K. Smith)
- "Bonsai" in Narrative Magazine (Finalist for Seventh Annual Poetry Contest)
- "Old Country, New World" in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
- "Your Mouth is Full of Birds," "Orchard," and "Penance" in Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche
- "Caterpillar Season," "Brother Returns as Chrysanthemum," and "Poem in Furrows" in Thrush Poetry Journal
- "Kites" in Autodidact #1
- "Postcard from Miami" in Bridge Me Japan
- "How to Jog at Dusk" in Cent Journal #10
- "I Will Die in Retirement in the Sun" in That's So Miami
- "All the Sheep Have Scattered" in Chautauqua
- "Insomnia" and "House of Wolves" in The Oakland Review
- "Conversation in Three Voices" in The MacGuffin
- "Silent Conversations with My Father" in Re-Visions
- "Speak American, Dude" in Cent Journal #9
- "Mother Ran Off the American Base in South Korea" in The Albion Review
- "Recalibrating the Brain" and "Family Secrets" in Dossier
- "Block" in Rainy Day
Prose
- "What the River Knows" in The Mom Egg Review (15 June 2020)
- "A Lobby with Nine Hundred Windows: Notes on Leonard Cohen" in Epiphany: A Literary Journal (Fall/Winter 2018)
- "In Case of Emergency" in Poetry Northwest, "Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South" Roundtable guest-edited by Shamala Gallagher (14 Dec 2017)
- "Nocturne: Year of the Snake" in december magazine (Vol. 28.1, spring 2017)
- "Buenos días, Miami" in 92nd Street Y #wordswelivein (8 June 2016)
- "Mamihlapinatapai" in The Grief Diaries (reprint) (March 2016)
- "The Sea Urchin" in Paper Darts (11 Jan 2016)
- "Knight-funded performance fuses classical Indian dance and Afro-Caribbean poetry" in Knight Foundation Arts Blog (21 Dec 2015)
- "# Actual Asian Poets: A Celebration of Asian & Asian American Poetry: Suji Kwock Kim" in Literary Hub (6 Oct 2015)
- "Mamihlapinatapai" in American Letters & Commentary
Translations
- "For the Mirror," "The Mirror Runs Away," "Dark and Bulging TV and Me," and "The Landscape's End" in Chicago Review (forthcoming)
- "Night's Playground" and "I Miss My Face" in AAWW The Margins "Transpacific Literary Project: Lullabies Notebook" (Mar 2021)
- "Time and a Plastic Bag," "Road," "Roots 3," and "Book" in Denver Quarterly (Issue 55.1, 2021)
- "Between a Rice Bowl and Shadow," "A Bright Room," and Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick" in Asymptote (Oct 2020)
- "On the Street" in Poetry Daily (26 April, 2019)
- "Your Package," "Spring Letter," "Road or Net," and "The Mirror Gnaws on My Face" in Puerto Del Sol (Spring 2019)
- "Shadow," "On the Street," and "To the Air" in Waxwing (Issue XVII, Spring 2019)
Editorial
- Guest Editor, "OUTBREAK: Poets Respond to COVID-19" in COUNTERCLOCK (6 Sept 2020)
- Guest Editor, "So You Want to Start a Literary Journal" [Part 1] & [Part 2] in The Sundress Blog (26 May 2020)
- Guest Poetry Editor, "November Adoptee Literature Folio" in Hyphen Magazine (9 Nov 2017)
Interviews
- "Two Fantasy Superstar Writers on Forbidden Magic, Forgotten Lives" and Live Q&A at Miami Book Fair Online (15 Nov 2020)
- "How the United States Gaslights Asian Americans" in Electric Literature (16 Apr 2020)
- "This Graphic Memoir About Adoption Isn't Interested in Comfortable Answers" in Electric Literature (28 Jan 2020)
- "Ocean Vuong Refuses to Compromise" in Electric Literature (5 June 2019)
- "Susan Choi's Novel about Teenage Emotions is Painfully Accurate" in Electric Literature (11 Apr 2019)
- "Alice Stephens is Blowing Up the Traditional Adoption Story" in Electric Literature (7 Jan 2019)
- "(Re)Imagining the Great American Novel with an Asian American Cast" in Electric Literature (27 June 2018)
- "Mirrors and Masks: A Discussion by Korean American Female Writers" in Sundress Publications (17 Apr 2017)
- Interview with Gary Snyder in The Working Poet Radio Show
- Interview with Molly Peacock in Print-Oriented Bastards
- Interview with Richard Blanco in Gulf Stream Magazine
- Interview with Jim Daniels in Gulf Stream Magazine
Reviews
- The Magical Language of Others by E. J. Koh in World Literature Today (Spring 2020)
- Monsoon on the Fingers of God by Sasenarine Persaud in World Literature Today (Spring 2019)
- Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee in World Literature Today (July 2018)
- Awaiting Your Impossibilities by Donald Morrill in Florida Book Review
- Prayer of Confession by Jen Karetnick in Florida Book Review
- Lucky Bones by Peter Meinke in Florida Book Review
- The Lame God by M. B. McLatchey in Florida Book Review
- Systems of Vanishing by Michael Hettich in Florida Book Review
- Bachelor Pad by Stephem Kampa in Florida Book Review
- On the Streets of Divine Love: Selected Poems by Barbara Hamby in Florida Book Review
- The Biscuit Joint by David Kirby in Florida Book Review
- Finding the Fountain of Youth by Rick Kilby in Florida Book Review
- Forts of Florida by Rodney Carlisle and Loretta Carlisle in Florida Book Review
- Dispatches from the Department of Supernatural Explanation by Jesse Millner in Florida Book Review
- I Live in a Hut by S. E. Smith in Gulf Stream Magazine
- Looking for the Gulf Motel by Richard Blanco in Florida Book Review
Collaborations & Productions
- "Poet vs. Community vs. History" podcast on AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature (22 May, 2019)
- "Ghost Mantis" in collaboration with Elizabeth Terhune for Broadsided Press (August 2018)
- TEDx Guest Speaker: "How Failure Drives Creativity," TEDxPineCrestSchool, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 1, 2018
- "A Working Theory of Eyes" + music playlist, It's Lit with PhDJ, HST on KTUH.org, 90.1FM Honolulu, 91.1 North Shore, and channel 866 on Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Honolulu, HI, October 8, 2017
- "Many-Faced Poem" audio recording for voiceover, Photoville, "An Evening with the New York Times," Brooklyn, NY, 2017
- "Your Mouth is Full of Birds" audio recording, Reading Queer: O, Hi There! Poetry Playlist, O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL, 2015
- "All the Sheep Have Scattered" in collaboration with Jose Garcia for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014
- "Poem in Handfuls" in collaboration with Ana G. Gonzalez for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014
- "Spin Cycle" in collaboration with Alette Jiminez-Simmons for SWEAT Broadsheet Portfolio 2014
- "Family Secrets" adaptation for Between the Lines Poetry Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011
- "Brother of War" Hangar Theater, Next Stage Showcase for Young Playwrights, Ithaca, NY, 2002
- "Blue was Her Uniform" Hangar Theater, Next Stage Showcase for Young Playwrights, Ithaca, NY, 2001
Awards and Distinctions
- American Literary Translators Association, Emerging Translator Mentorship Program co-recipient with E. J. Koh under Don Mee Choi, 2017
- Best Small Fictions anthology, "The Sea Urchin," chosen by Amy Hempel, 2017
- Finalist for Binghamton University Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, Hour of the Ox, 2017
- Bettering American Poetry anthology, "From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows," edited by Kaveh Akbar, jay dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Muriel Leung, Camille Rankine, and Michael Wasson, 2016
- Bronze medal for Hour of the Ox, Florida Book Awards, 2016
- Finalist for Annual Poetry Contest, Boston Review, 2016
- Finalist for Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction, "Nocturne: Year of the Snake," december magazine, 2016
- Finalist for Ninth Annual Poetry Prize, "Vase of Ashes," Tupelo Quarterly, 2015
- Finalist for Seventh Annual Poetry Contest, "Bonsai," Narrative Magazine, 2015
- Best New Poets anthology, "Songs of Thirst: Six Sijo," chosen by Tracy K. Smith, 2015
- Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, for Hour of the Ox, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series, 2015
- Nominated for Best New Poets, "Penance," Lunch Ticket, 2015
- Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship, 2014
- Academy of American Poets Prize, "Old Country, New World," Florida International University, 2014
- Indiana University Writers' Conference Poetry Fellowship, Indiana University, 2013
- Finalist for Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest, "Bonsai," 2013
- Honorable Mention, Student Literary Awards, "Bonsai," Florida International University, 2013
- New York State Summer Writers Institute Poetry Fellowship, Skidmore College, 2012
- Academy of American Poets Prize, "Postmarked from Hydropolis," Florida International University, 2012
- Graduate Minority Opportunity Award, Florida International University, 2011
- John S. and James L. Knight Fellowship in Poetry, Florida International University, 2011 - 2014
- Honorable Mention for Academy of American Poets Prize, "The Last Intimate Moment," Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
- Charles C. Dawe Memorial Award, Print-Oriented Bastards, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
- The Albion Review Poetry Prize, "Mother Ran Off the American Base in South Korea," 2011
- Meeting of the Minds Award for Artistic Excellence, Thesis: Last Train to the Midnight Market, Carnegie Mellon University, 2011
- Pauline B. Adamson Memorial Merit Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010