Other Writing

“Like Evening”

McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers, April 2025

“On White-Passing & Cuttlefish”

McSweeney’s 78: The Make Believers, April 2025

“Lost Love”

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

50 Years Later, March 2025

“Origins”

Ploughshares, Summer 2019

“A Refugee Again”

The Displaced, Abrams Press, 2019

“Under the Murakami Spell: Truth & Power in Negative Space”

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2019

“War and Peace and Nostalgia”

Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2018

“The Uncertain Memories of a Four-Year-Old Refugee”

Literary Hub, August 2016

“Kubla Khan”

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

“This Or Any Desert”

The Best American Mystery Stories 2009

“The Gift of Years”

O. Henry Prize Stories 2007

“The Other Country”

Harvard Review, Spring 2005

“A Painted Face”

The Southern Review, Winter 2005

“Vagaries”

Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2004

“Monsoon”

Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2003