Publications
Poetry
Poetry: “American Han”
Poem-A-Day : "Jeju Island"
Poetry: “Pondfields”
Boston Review: "Icicle Creek"
Poetry Society of America: "Showtime"
PEN America: "Testimony"
Seattle Review of Books: "Korean War"
Air/Light: “After the Funeral,” “Cold Water,” “Forbidden Peak,” “Farmhouse”
Figure 1: "Homecoming"
Poetry Northwest: "43558 Southerland Way" & "Trilogy"
Verse Daily: "Confession"
Lantern Review: “Hysteria”
Two Peach: "Overcast"
CityArts: "Shaman"
Berfrois: "For Adam"
The Margins: "The Forest," "Pigeon," and "Madrona"
Zocalo Public Square: "Alki the Town of Dreams"
Berfrois: "South Korean Ferry Accident"
Print-Oriented Bastards: "On Sleep"
Narrative Magazine: "Tiger Balm," "Joyful God," "Moat"
H.O.W. Journal: "An English to English Translation of Beyoncé"
Los Angeles Review of Books: "Today Never Happened"
Non-fiction
Catapult: "Writing Advice for My Younger Self"
Slate: "The Coat"
Prairie Schooner: "How to Age with Grace"
Fiction
SmokeLong Quarterly: "Ueno Zoo"
SWARM: "Savage"
Coast/NoCoast: "Haru"
Translation
AGNI: “Self-Portrait”
Chicago Review: “For the Mirror,” “The Mirror Runs Away,” “Dark and Bulging TV and Me,” “The Landscape’s End,” “A Night at the Gas Station”
Asymptote: "A Bright Room," "Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick," "Between a Rice Bowl and Shadow"
Poetry Daily, Waxwing Magazine: "On the Street," "Shadow"
World Literature Today: "The Mythology of I in Translation"
Antioch University: "Death," "Jebu Island, and also Rain"
Blue Lyra Review: "49th Day" and "On the Road"
Hayden's Ferry Review: "Cried"
Alchemy Journal: "Dating 3," "Dating 1"
Puerto Del Sol: "Your Package," "Spring Letter," "Road or Net," and "Mirror Gnaws on My Face"
Anthology
Jack Straw Writers Anthology Vol. 25: “Curator’s Note”
Pleiades’ Poetry by Korean American Women: "Guest Editor's Note"
The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith: "Shaman," "Floaters," "Mountain," "Father in his Old Age"
Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3: "Five Cantos"
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics: "My Country," "Clearance"
Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on Politics of Identity: "Pledge of Allegiance"
Awards
Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist 2024
National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow 2023
Literature Translation Institute of Korea’s Translation Grand Prize Winner 2022
Artistic Achievement Award by Korean American Coalition of Washington 2022
Association of Asian American Studies Book Award Winner 2022
Washington State Book Award Winner 2021
One of the Best Books by Asian American Writers by Oprah Daily 2021
Pacific Northwest Book Award Winner 2021
PEN Open Book Award Longlist 2021
Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing 2020
Prairie Schooner's Creative Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up 2019
Boston Review’s Top 25 Poems of 2017
National Poetry Series Finalist 2016
Pushcart Prize Nomination for "All Bodies Are" 2016
Best of the Net for "Ingredients for Memories Used As Explosives" 2013
Pushcart Prize Nomination for "To My Mother Kneeling in the Cactus Garden" 2013