Short Fiction & Creative Non-fiction
- You Always Ask Me How I Write, The Bureau Dispatch, January 2022
- It’s Always Jacket Weather In The City, JMWW, August 2021
- A Hundred Unions, Room Magazine, January 2021
- Kite-Flying is Not For Little People , Barren Magazine, March 2020
- Omakase , Jellyfish Review, January 2020
- Belle & Sebastian, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Q4 2012
Essays & Reviews
- Unlearning the Colonial Gaze in Southeast Asian Art, Catapult, March 2022
- Singapore Put My Safety Ahead of Ideology , Palladium Magazine, April 2020
- How Literary Translation Can Shift The Tides of Power , Electric Literature, November 2019
- Review of Teo Youyenn’s This is What Inequality Looks Like, Asian CHA, Sep-Oct 2019
Journalism (selection)
- Chinese in Japan, The World in 2007
- Kick Ass Maidens – Japanese comics , The Economist, August 2006
- Pro Patria Mori – The Myth of The Kamikaze Pilot, The Economist, July 2006
- Surf ‘n turf – Japan’s food industry, The Economist, July 2006
- Selling the Sage of Qufu – China’s Confucius Institutes, The Economist, July 2006
- What A Little Sunshine Can Do – Japan’s zainichi (ethnic Koreans), The Economist, June 2006
- Interview with Livedoor CEO Horie Takafumi – “I’m the most capable politician,” Time Magazine, September 2005
- All You Fat Cats, Beijing is the Newest Thing, Time Magazine, April 2001
- Boys Night Out, Time Magazine, March 2001
Screenwriting
- 新生 Babies on Board, Mediacorp Channel 8, 2018
- 知星人 Friends from Afar, Mediacorp Channel 8, 2017 (Winner of Mediacorp Awards Best Screenplay in 2018)
Awards and Residencies
2023
- Himan Brown Prize in Fiction for Manyage, Brooklyn College
- Commonwealth Short Story Competition, Longlist, Manyage
2021
- Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions Longlist, Omakase
- Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Rona Jaffe Scholar
2020
- Tin House Winter Workshop (Novel) in Oregon, U.S.A.
- Finalist, Mslexia Novel Competition 2020
2018
- Mediacorp Star Awards, Best Screenplay, Friends from Afar 知星人
- National Arts Council Artist-in-Residence at the Toji Cultural Foundation in Wonju, South Korea
2017
- Commonwealth Short Story Competition, Longlist, Daikon
Lecture & Media Appearances
- Cultural Norms & ‘Good’ Fiction, Interview with Writer Unboxed, March 2023
- The Art of Whiteness, Lecture at Bard College, sponsored by the Asian Diaspora Initiative Speaker Series, April 2022
- Who is This Mythical English Reader?, British Centre for Literary Translation & National Centre for Writing, September 2020