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FICTION (shortlist)
-“The Hungarian Divorce in Seven Movements,” The Offing, 30 June 2022 (novel chapter)
-”French Vowels that Make You Look Like Goldfish,” Vol.1 Brooklyn, 21 March 2021 (short story)
-“Semi-Permeable Membrane,” Columbia Journal, Special Uprising Issue, 20 December 2020
-“Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 17 October 2020 (short story)
-“10 Zen Koans,” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 17 October 2020 (short story)
-“The Geography of Desire,” Juked, Issue #17, Winter/Spring 2020 (short story)
-"Guide to the Other Side of the Universe," Angel City Review, Issue 5, 2017 (short story)
-"The Conspiracy of Lemons," Witness, Vol. XXX No.2, Summer 2017 (short story)
-"Living in the Future," Arts & Letters, Issue 34, Spring 2017 (short story)
-"Castaways and Worry Dolls," Joyland, 28 October 2016 (novel chapter)
-"Oaxaca Smack and Space Gladiators," Hobart, 13 October 2016 (novel chapter)
-"My 12-Step Program for Yuki Hiramoto," Santa Monica Review, Spring 2016 (short story)
-“Cabrón,” Tin House, 20 September 2013 (short story)
-“When Silence is an Old Warehouse and Love is a Pocketful of Rocks,” Fiction International, Issue #45: Ways of Seeing, 2012 (short story)
-“I Didn’t Accidentally Karate-Kick the Stereo,” Last Night on Earth Anthology, So Say We All, 2012 (short story)
-“The Blue Men inside My Head,” The Antioch Review, Fall 2012 (short story)
-“Kothar," Quarter After Eight, Vol. 18, 2012 (short story)
-“30 Roofies,” Quarterly West, Issue #70/71, 2011 (short story)
-“Imperfect Stranger,” The Loudest Voice Anthology, Volume 1, 2010 (short story)
-“The Great Fall,” Fiction #56, 2010 (short story)
-“The Molestation of Skinny Boys,” African American Review, Vol. 43, No.1, 2010 (novel chapters)
-“A Full Cellar,” ZYZZYVA #88, Spring 2010 (short story)
-“City of Sand,” Notre Dame Review, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2009 (short story)
-“Broken Pottery,” Connecticut Review, Spring 2009 (short story)
-“Cowboys of My Heart: the 5-DVD Box Set,” Kenyon Review, May 2009 (short story)
-“Nimble Calligraphy,” Stand Magazine (UK), 8(4) 2008 (short story)
-“Change Gonna Come,” Fringe Magazine, January 2008 (short story)
-“The Space Between Brooklyn and Manhattan,” Word Riot, July 2007 (novel chapter)
-“Body Language,” Writers Post-Journal, 2007 (novel chapter)
-“City Lunch,” 3:am Magazine, January 2007 (short story)
-“Golden State,” The SoMa Literary Review, January 2007 (short story)
-“Delilah in Collision,” The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spring 2006 (novel chapter)
-“The Gift of Space,” Denver Syntax, Issue 9, 2006 (short story)
-“Lost,” Right Hand Pointing, Fiction Issue, 2006 (short story)
-“Everyday Corporate America,” BlazeVox, Spring 2006 (short story)
NONFICTION (shortlist)
-”Stumbling on Infinity,” Adroit Journal, 6 September 2022 (personal essay)
-”Lyrics Without Songs,” Hyphen, 18 August 2022 (personal essay)
-”The Birthing of Dream Pop Origami,” LitReactor, 26 July 2022 (craft essay)
-”The Big Idea: Jackson Bliss,” John Scalzi’s Whatever, 26 July 2022 (craft essay)
-“If My Book: Dream Pop Origami,” Monkey Bicycle, 26 July 2022 (personal essay)
-"The Culture Shock of Dancing Atoms,” Juked, 23 July 2022 (personal essay)
-When Home is Not a Verb Chart, Hypertext, 8 July 2022 (personal essay)
-“12 Mate Sips,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 21 June 2022 (personal essay)
-”For Ten Years, This Novel was a Chunk of Starlight That I Buried in the Thick Earth & Then Dug up Again, Heartbroken & Stubborn,” Necessary Fiction, 29 April 2022 (craft essay)
-”Jackson Bliss Recommends,” Poets & Writers, 20 April 2022 (nonfiction/craft)
-”The Cult of Likeability (or Why You Should Kill Your Literary Friendships),” TriQuarterly, 23 January 2020 (craft essay)
-“Our Words Will Save Us & Set Us Free” Longreads, 18 March 2019 (personal essay)
-"Not Done With the World,” The New York Times, 23 October 2018 (online) and 25 October 2018 (print), (flash nonfiction)
-"The Scarcity of Affection Among among Men,” The Good Men Project, 9 October 2018 (personal essay/cultural criticism)
-“When Words Make You Real,” The Beiging of America Anthology: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century, 2Leaf Press, 2017 (personal essay)
-"(My) Ten Rules for APIA/Hapa Fiction," Ploughshares, 6 August 2017 (literary essay)
-"Stories without Women," Ploughshares, 2 July 2017 (literary essay)
-"Matriarchy and the Tired Assassin," Ploughshares, 28 May 2017 (literary/video game essay)
-"The Psychopathic Gaze: Murder, Violence, and Misogyny in Natsuo Kirino's Out," Ploughshares, 12 February 2017 (literary essay)
-"Japanese Boy Band Saves the World: Postcolonial Masculinities in Final Fantasy XV," Ploughshares, 8 January 2017 (literary/video game essay)
-"Obāsan in a Cup," Guernica, 17 August 2016 (personal essay)
-"The Velocity of Flying Objects," Pleiades, 30 July 2016 (creative writing pedagogy essay)
-"How the Internet Changed the Way We Read," The Daily Dot, 1 January 2016 (cultural criticism)
-The Day I Lost Rock and Roll," Boston Review, 23 September 2014 (personal essay)
-La Pénurie d'affection entre hommes," (translated and reprinted), L'Homme simple, 22 Juin 2014 (personal/cultural criticism)
-"Driving the World Insane," Huffington Post UK, 24 March 2014 (cultural criticism)
-"The Transfusion of Yukiyo Kanahashi," The 2012-2013 Anthology of APIA Literature, 2013 (personal essay)
-"アメリカ人のお宅 (American Otaku), Discover Nikkei, 20 September 2013 (personal essay)
-“How to Stay in Love,” The Good Men Project, 23 August 2013 (personal essay)
-“The Dream of an Inclusive Masculinity,” The Good Men Project, 12 August 2013 (cultural criticism)
-“The Transfusion of Yukiyo Kanahashi,” Kartika Review, Issue 15, Spring 2013 (personal essay)
-“Piano Lessons,” South Loop Review, V. 10, 2008 (personal essay)
-“Stripped Down,” Pology Magazine, October 2007 (personal essay)
Poetry/Prose Poems/Libretti (shortlist)
-"The Voice Inside Your Bones" (in collaboration with visual artist Rick Potts), 7x7, 1 December 2016 (prose poem)
-"The Miracle of the Walking Fish” (in collaboration with composer Laura Kramer), Songs About Places Series: Los Angeles, Pasadena Conservatory of Music, 15 February 2015, 4pm (bilingual libretto)
Interviews (shortlist)
-“Killing the Messenger: a Dual Interview with Charles Baxter & Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Importance and the Stigma of Didactic (APIA) Fiction,” Ploughshares, 19 March 2017
-“Speaking for Everyone, Speaking for No One: the Question of (APIA) Canonicity: a Dual Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita & Celeste Ng,” Ploughshares, 23 April 2017
-“Bryan Hurt’s Everyone Want to Be an Ambassador to France Interview,” Full Stop, 12 January 2016