April 11, 2025Content note: graphic descriptions of violence New publication alert! "Pain and Relief Come of Themselves" is now live in Peitho's…
January 21, 2025Dream publication announcement! The modified prototype (and I do mean prototype) of the parser-based game that formed the basis of…
May 20, 2022This public presentation of my dissertation, This is about the body, the mind, the academy, the clinic, time, and pain,…- May 3, 2022Ten years after starting my Ph.D. program, six years after I started thinking, reading, and writing, I've finished my dissertation.…
October 10, 2021Content note: corpse desecration, genocide, graphic descriptions of violence, intergenerational trauma, racism Publication alert! "Chaos Itself Is an Order" has…
April 22, 2019Today, I am caught between the thrill of having published something in The Paris Review and an overwhelming sense of…
May 14, 2018After four years of teaching as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information (SC&I), as I…
May 8, 2018I was invited to moderate this panel for the Asian American Writers' Workshop at the last minute (a couple days'…
November 11, 2016Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…
October 6, 2015As I belatedly discovered, "The meaning of a machete" was included among other "Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014" in Best…