“No matter how far she had come, Han was still with her. And so I understood: it would always be with me as well.”

— THE HAN OF A WOMAN

2026

NON FICTION: On Time (The Upper Room)

Scheduled to be published in Jan 2026

2025

NON FICTION: The Han of a Woman

Participant of the Tin House Autumn Online Workshop

Virtual reading on Sept 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)

Audio Sample

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)

FICTION: Rivers Between Us (Master’s Thesis, University of Hawaiʻi)

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

Acceptance Note

2014

NON FICTION: 마침내 슬픔이 잠들었다

Winner of the Sookmyung Women’s University Autobiography Contest

Interview by Korea Joongang Daily

Interview by Sookmyung Women’s University