Writer
My writing centres on Asia/Asian America, queerness and mental illness, and has been published by outlets like We Need Diverse Books, Book Riot, The Dot and Line, Off Colour Inc. and Observer. My range of work includes creative non-fiction, media criticism and fiction, and I especially enjoy writing for a YA audience.
I also try really hard to sneak in as many puns and Oxford commas as humanly possible, and am represented by Claire Draper at the Bent Agency. I'm currently co-writing a memoir about life in Tibet under Chinese occupation.
Media Criticism
Sensitivity Readers Can Make Publishing More Accountable, if We Allow Them To
We Need Diverse Books
Mulan's Representation Throws Marginalised Peoples in Asia Under the Bus
Observer
Mulan Won't Save Us, on VOD or Otherwise
Cup of Soul (Archived)
Ahsoka, Survival and Leaving the Ones You Love
Wear Your Voice Magazine (Archived)
Diane Nguyen and the Myth of the Tortured Artist
Wear Your Voice Magazine (Archived)
It's Time for Children's Literature to Talk About Taiwan
We Need Diverse Books
If You Think Diane Finds Herself in Vietnam, Think Again
The Dot and Line
Beyond 'Elementary' Feminism
Off Colour Inc. (formerly Nerdy POC)
Personal Essays
Slings and Aros
Crab Fat Magazine
To the Little Asian Girl Reading Poetry on the Subway
Book Riot
Writing Myself Into Existence With Fanfiction
Book Riot
The Dissonance of Existing as Taiwanese in America and American in Taiwan
Wanderful
Now What?: Suicidality and Planning for an Uncertain Present
OC87 Recovery Diaries