Publications
Chapbooks
The Period of Warring States, Another New Calligraphy Press, April 2017
Zombia, dancing girl press, August 2014
Selected Publications
“Lipogram without the ‘U’ in Utopia,” The Margins, June 2023
“Introduction to Abnormal Behavior,” Prelude
“Invocation at the Schomburg” and “Langston and Zora Take a Road Trip through the South,” Kweli Journal, February 2023
“I was not koi in a water garden,” “Ancestral Line,” Massachusetts Review, Fall 2022
“Shirley Graham Du Bois in Maoist China,” FENCE, forthcoming
“Impression, Jardin des Tuileries” and “Alone in the Beinecke with Langston Hughes,” Salamander, Issue 54
“Augusta Savage in Paris,” African American Review, forthcoming
“Gamble,” Narrative Magazine, October 2020
“Langston Hughes in Shanghai,” The Shanghai Literary Review, Fall 2017
“The Year of the Untranslatable Animal,” Spittoon Literary Magazine, Fall 2016
“Thesaurus dot com,” “Tender Greens,” Apogee, September 2015
“Edwidge in Blue Dress,” “Ingrid in Her Summer Dress,” The Columbia Review, Spring 2010
“Boroughing: Onassis Reservoir,” The Current, April 2010
“Confessions of a Self-Portrait,” “My Felon of Choice,” The Columbia Review, Fall 2009
“The Swelling,” The Columbia Review, Spring 2009
“Sea Mice,” The Columbia Review, Fall 2008
Translations
“Three Poems” by Zang Di, Spittoon Literary Magazine, Summer 2019
“Family Life” by An Wu, orig. Chinese “家庭生活,” and “A Swaying Man” by An Wu, orig. Chinese “ 摇晃的人,” Spittoon Literary Magazine, Spring 2018
Public Literary Criticism
“‘If I Told Her How Often I Thought of Prison’: A Review of Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts.” Michigan Quarterly Review (Dec 4, 2019)
“‘Knowing Silence Moves Us to Speak’: Review of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic.” Michigan Quarterly Review (Feb 15, 2019)
“The Thrill of a Stranger.” Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel (Feb 9, 2018).
Narrative Articles
Black Panther in China: A Red Carpet Opening Night Near Tiananmen Square, SupChina, 2018