Other Writing

“Like Evening” (short story)

McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers, April 2025

“On White-Passing & Cuttlefish” (creative nonfiction)

McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers, April 2025

“Lost Love” (short story)

The Colors of April: Fiction on the Vietnam War’s Legacy

50 Years Later, March 2025

“Origins” (novel excerpt)

Ploughshares, Summer 2019

“A Refugee Again” (essay)

The Displaced, Abrams Press, 2019

“Under the Murakami Spell: Truth & Power in Negative Space” (book review & essay)

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2019

“War and Peace and Nostalgia” (book review & essay)

Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2018

“The Uncertain Memories of a Four-Year-Old Refugee” (personal essay)

Literary Hub, August 2016

“Kubla Khan” (short story)

Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, 2010

“This Or Any Desert” (novel excerpt)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2009

“The Gift of Years” (short story)

O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

“The Other Country” (short story)

Harvard Review, Spring 2005

“A Painted Face” (short story)

The Southern Review, Winter 2005

“Vagaries” (short story)

Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2004

“Monsoon” (short story)

Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2003