Essays
“Initiations.” Commonweal Magazine. October 2024.
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“After Our Roots Have Thirsted” in Essay Daily, July 2021.
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“Two Adoptions” in Commonweal Magazine, April 2021.
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“Language and Conversion” in Commonweal Magazine. Feb. 2020.
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“Why I Came and Why I Stay” in Commonweal Magazine. Oct. 2019.
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“We Carry Smoke and Paper” in Blood Orange Review Vol. 11.1. May 2019..
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“The Sense of the Story” in The Common Reader.April 2019.
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“Luck Let Go” in Barnstorm Literary Journal. 2015.
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“Jack’s Kitchen” in Copper Nickel. 2010.
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“Back Home” in North Dakota Quarterly. 2007.
Poems (selected)
“Our Women’s World” in the art exhibit “Look Again” by Julie Lapping Rivera. D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, 2024-2025.
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“Learn to Walk” in The Rappahannock Review, Dec. 2019.
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“And So More” in Lantern Review, 2019.
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“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” in Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets, 2019.
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“The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat” inRuminate, 2018.
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“Liturgy” in Slippery Elm, 2017.
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“The Convert Learns to Play Hide and Seek”; “The Convert Desires Her Way Into a First Prayer.” Figure One, 2017.
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“Or Am I”; “Yolk” in Construction Magazine, 2014.
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“Why We Are This Way” in Boxcar Poetry Review, 2013.
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3 poems in failbetter.com, 2012.
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2 poems in Connotation Press, 2011.
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“The Sea Wall” in The Collagist, 2011.
“Migration” reprinted in East West Poetry, 2011.
3 poems in Town Creek Poetry, 2010.
2 poems in Blackbird, 2010.
“History Filled In” reprinted in 3 Quarks Daily, 2010.
“Giving” in Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine, 2009.
“The Voice Before” in The Greensboro Review, 2008.
Articles & Reviews
Lectionary Reflection. Give Us This Day. November 2024.
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“It Made Me Feel Less Alone.” Interview with Wendy Chen. Tupelo Quarterly. September 14, 2023.
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Book Review of Dear Chrysanthemums by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Soapberry Review. February 13, 2024.
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“Coming Home and Creating Home.” Lectionary Reflection. Give Us This Day. Liturgical Press, February 2024.
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“Medicine.” Lectionary Reflection. Give Us This Day. Liturgical Press, September 2023.
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“Toward Our Shared Ending: A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.” Commonweal Magazine. March 19, 2023.
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“Distance and Destiny.” Book review of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama. Commonweal Magazine, December 2022.
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Lectionary Reflection, November 2022. Give Us This Day. Liturgical Press.
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“What Belongs to the Living.” Book review of Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo. Commonweal Magazine, March 2022.
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Lectionary Reflection, December 26, 2021. Give Us This Day. Liturgical Press.
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“Fractured Remembrance.” Book review of House of Sticks by Ly Tran and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. Commonweal Magazine, September 2021.
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“A Hybrid Voice.” Book review of Xiaolu Guo’s novel, A Lover’s Discourse, in Commonweal Magazine, June 2021.
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Lectionary Reflection, February 12, 2021. Give Us This Day. Liturgical Press.
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“Making an American.” Book review of Jia Lynn Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide in Commonweal Magazine. September 2020.
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Retreatant Profile at the Bridges Foundation. Jan. 2020.
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“Tales of Assimilation.” Book review of The Leavers by Lisa Ko, Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan, and Reading with Patrick by Michelle Kuo, in Commonweal Magazine. Dec. 2019.
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“Return Community College to an Institution that Builds Our City’s Future” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Feb. 2018.
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“College’s Trustees Add a Stinging Insult to Layoffs” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dec. 2017.
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“Silence, Reader” in Blackbird. 2010.
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