Last Season in ChinatownOn a warm, mid-October day in 2008, Danny Lee set out Oriental jewelry boxes close to the entrance of his store. Tourists filled the block…Aug 16, 2021Aug 16, 2021
The Hot-Sour-Bittersweet Taste of Memories(Published originally on Spoonwiz.com — a literary food blog that has unfortunately shuttered.)Aug 16, 2021Aug 16, 2021
Surviving Tết: Luckiest Of the UnluckyMany moons ago, I lived with a local Vietnamese family and taught English in Ho Chi Minh City. For my first celebration of Tết, I learned…Feb 12, 2021Feb 12, 2021
A Few Thoughts on Writing About Your WhitenessI attended 2017 AWP conference in February, and checked out the panel, In Praise of Junot Diaz and Claudia Rankine: Furthering the MFA vs…Mar 15, 2017Mar 15, 2017