Writings

Essays

• I Tried It, Being White — originally published in OZY (R.I.P., OZY); this is an archived version. (This essay was shared 142k times. I still find that mind-boggling.)
• On Crossing Over — Rumpus
• Michael Derrick Hudson, Before You Steal My Chinese Name — Rumpus
• Reclaiming 5 Ugly Letters — OZY
• Could I Have Been Jailed For My Miscarriage? — BuzzFeed
• It Takes Guts, And Organ Meats, To Raise A New Mom — CAAM Media
• Beyond the Baby Blues — MUTHA (Republished in Narratively)
• Smiling Selfies and Other Lies — Hyphen

Articles

• Don’t Call It Baby Blues — Hyphen (This two-year project is the only existing online magazine article on Asian American survivors of postpartum depression. It was made possible by an EIC mental health fellowship from the Maynard Institute for Journalism).

Fiction

• Zhou — Pen Hitting Paper

Other Literary Publications

• “Peach Tree Fruit,” “Exhibited,” Dismantle, VONA Anthology, 2014
• “Year of the Ox,” 580 Split literary magazine, 2010
• “Angels,” School, literary magazine, 2009
• “Nu,” Calliope, literary magazine, 2009
• “Fire,” Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence (Seal Press 2007), anthology

Literary Contest Achievements

• Glimmer Train, August 2010 Short Story Award for New Writers, finalist, “How to Make Zhou Before Leaving Your Family”
• Glimmer Train, March 2010 Short Story Contest, finalist, “1992”
• Calliope 3rd place winner of the 2009 Women Who Write Contest, poem “Nu,” Calliope, January 2009

Other

• How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good by Steve Phillips (Published by New Press in 2022. Served as book editor and author’s coach.)
• Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority by Steve Phillips (Published by New Press in 2016. Served as book editor and author’s coach. This book became a NY Times and Washington Post bestseller.)
• Litquake SF readings presented as part of All About Skin (2016), Mutha Magazine (2017)
• Asian Women Admitting Racial Preference Is Not Feminism (this is actually a blog post by a multiracial Asian man hating on my essay about the self-hate I internalized for a long time about being Asian and the fact that I married a white man. I am fascinated by it.)

Interviews

• Five Qs with Sharline Chiang — Writing Like An Asian
• Saving One Another’s Lives: A Conversation with Women Writers of Color About Postpartum Mood Disorders — Kore Press
• Sharline Chiang — Asians Doing Everything
• 7 Mash-Up Parenting Favorites: Media Edition — Mash-Up
• Framing Mother — Ashleigh McArthur (Note: This is an incredible short documentary on survivors of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders/PMAD/PPD. I was honored to be included in it.)
• Overturning Roe will Not End Abortion — Think Tech Hawaii
• Special Episode, Postpartum Psychosis — Writer Mother Monster