“Long, long later, I understood what Han was really about. She was not my enemy. She was not cruel, and she did not delight in anguish. What she truly wanted was relief — relief from the pain, the shame, and the trauma I had buried deep inside me. In her own ways, she was mirroring my old hurts, insisting that I cry, shout, and feel things with full weight. Because without it, she knew that my life, my body, my spirit could never be so whole.”
— The Han of a Woman
2026
NON FICTION: The Han of a Woman (ASCJ)
Participant of the Asian Studies Conference Japan 2026
Presenter of the panel “(Un)Becoming “Asian”: Reclaiming the Lives and Memories Beyond Dominant Narratives”
Scheduled to take place on July 4-5, 2026 (Sophia University, Tokyo)
NON FICTION: Moon Jar (Tint Journal)
Scheduled to be published on March 10, 2026
NON FICTION: On Time (The Upper Room)
2025
NON FICTION: The Han of a Woman (Tin House)
Participant of the Tin House Autumn Online Workshop
Virtual reading on September 28, 7:00-8:00 AM, Pacific Time
NON FICTION: On Loving Men in Silence (Black Horse Review)
2024
NON FICTION: Grieving in Your Name (Tint Journal)
Tinted Tales Reading (Cafe Erde in Graz, Austria)
“That Was . . . Tinted Tales Fall ‘24” Article by Tint Journal
2020
ESSAY: A Tender Heart of Spring Recess (Stories of the Pandemic, University of Alberta)
2019
FICTION: A Free Life
Runner up for the Viet Thanh Nguyen Writing Contest
Bamboo Ridge Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts Issue 118
NON FICTION: 터널의 끝에서 (Hope Magazine, Korea Blood Disease and Cancer Association)
2016
ESSAY: 사랑하는 코리아타운에게 (Yeohang Sooketch, Sookmyung Women’s University)
2015
FICTION: 코리아타운
Winner of the Kim Yong Literature Award in Fiction
2014
NON FICTION: 마침내 슬픔이 잠들었다
Winner of the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest