Select publications - poetry
Find my work in:
ARC Poetry. Issue 110: Summer 2026.
The Capilano Review 4.6: Spring 2026 (love bends / the mover: The Roy Miki Issue).
The Gate of Memory:Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration [anthology]. Ed. Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda. Haymarket Books, 2025.
CV2 Magazine. Volume 43.4: 2021.
The Maynard. Issue 13.1: Spring 2020.
The Malahat Review 209: Winter 2019.
AlliterAsian: 20 years of Ricepaper Magazine [anthology]. Ed. Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu. Arsenal Press, 2015.
Select articles, reviews, and interviews
“The New Canadian”. The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Poetry review of Saturn Peach by Lily Wang, The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee, and RENDER by Sachiko Murakami. EVENT 50.2: Fall 2021.
“Ambivalent inheritance: Mercedes Eng's my yt mama”. ARC magazine. October 24, 2020. Winner of Critic’s Desk Award 2020.
“Mythical Ambiguity and Nisei”. Rungh. Volume 5, Issue 4: June 2018.
“In Conversation with Sachiko Murakami”. CWILA: Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. November 2016.
Select performances, readings, and events
WORD Vancouver: “Poetic Responses to the Archives” reading, Sept 16, 2023. UBC Robson campus. With Rina Garcia Chua. Mod. Krisztina Laslo.
Vines Festival - Our Stories Embodied: literary reading with Erica Isomura and Laura Fukumoto: New Brighton Park, August 11, 2021.
Playwrights Guild of Canada - The Canadian Play Thing: live interview and readings with Mieko Ouchi: broadcast on YouTube December 22, 2020.
Tadaima! Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimage: Block Party poetry reading: online, August 1, 2020. With Laura Fukumoto.
Heart of the City Festival: literary reading with Karen Tei Yamashita and Laura Fukumoto: Massy Books, November 9, 2019.
Powell Street Festival: “Re-pronunciation” literary reading, August 3, 2019. With Laura Fukumoto and Erica Isomura.
“To Viola Desmond, 1946”: art song collaboration with composer Jessica Rudman. Premiere: Art Song Lab, Pyatt Hall, July 6, 2019.
Anne’s Cradle (commissioned by Confederation Centre of the Arts): in-progress presentation at Polyphonic Multilingual Creation Residency (rice & beans theatre) May 30, 2024 (Progress Lab, Vancouver).
The New Canadians workshop presentation March 22, 2024 (composer Peter Abando; dir. Mieko Ouchi: Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver).
“Yonsei Mending Circle” – presentation for Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo, BC (co-devised and performed with Laura Fukumoto: October 1, 2022)
“Mending Circle” – Powell Street Festival Telethon (co-devised and performed with Laura Fukumoto) Live broadcast: August 1, 2020.
The Girl With No Face professional staged reading – Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre MSG Lab (dir. Lisa Goebel) Playwrights Theatre Centre, 2016.
“Trialogue” professional staged reading – Ruby Slippers Theatre, Advance Theatre reading series (dir. Marisa Smith) Vancouver International Fringe Festival, 2015.
“La Petite Paquita” – SHIFT 1-Act Festival / independent (dir. Nina Boosheri) Evergreen Cultural Centre / Havana Theatre, 2013.