essays
The Safe Zone (Granta, August 2021)
Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Showed me the Radical Power of Self-Publishing (Elephant Magazine, Nov 2020)
On 'Writing Britain Now' (Wasafiri, October 2020)
Tofu Heart (Vittles London, Apr 2020)
How to Eat Xiǎolóngbāo (Women Cook for Me, Mar 2020)
Unpeel (The Margins, Dec 2019)
excerpt from Ache: A Swimming Diary (Turbine | Kapohau, Dec 2019)
Tender Gardens (Landfall Issue 238, Nov 2019)
Faraway Love (close tinyletter, Oct 2019)
Falling City (The Shanghai Literary Review special issue: Concrete, May 2018)
I am a Forest/Fire: on Mitski & being mixed race (Oscen, Dec 2018)
Small Bodies of Water (The Willowherb Review, Dec 2018)
Blue Ocean, Yellow River: On Oceania at the Royal Academy (Hainamana Arts, Nov 2018)
A Mountain Far Away: on Kota Kinabalu (gal-dem.com, 2018)
Letters from Shanghai (The Pantograph Punch, 2018)
A taste of home: wonton noodle soup (Food Memory Bank, 2018)
I Spy: a childhood obsessed with ghosts (The Sapling, 2017)
Teenage Witch: growing up with Hermione (The Sapling, 2017)
HUNGRY GIRLS: Growing up half Malaysian-Chinese (Mimicry, 2016)
Somewhere Else (Salient, 2016)
Friendship Cove (Salient, 2014)
Toxicity (Turbine | Kapohau, 2013)
Yoko Ono's Grapefruit Showed me the Radical Power of Self-Publishing (Elephant Magazine, Nov 2020)
On 'Writing Britain Now' (Wasafiri, October 2020)
Tofu Heart (Vittles London, Apr 2020)
How to Eat Xiǎolóngbāo (Women Cook for Me, Mar 2020)
Unpeel (The Margins, Dec 2019)
excerpt from Ache: A Swimming Diary (Turbine | Kapohau, Dec 2019)
Tender Gardens (Landfall Issue 238, Nov 2019)
Faraway Love (close tinyletter, Oct 2019)
Falling City (The Shanghai Literary Review special issue: Concrete, May 2018)
I am a Forest/Fire: on Mitski & being mixed race (Oscen, Dec 2018)
Small Bodies of Water (The Willowherb Review, Dec 2018)
Blue Ocean, Yellow River: On Oceania at the Royal Academy (Hainamana Arts, Nov 2018)
A Mountain Far Away: on Kota Kinabalu (gal-dem.com, 2018)
Letters from Shanghai (The Pantograph Punch, 2018)
A taste of home: wonton noodle soup (Food Memory Bank, 2018)
I Spy: a childhood obsessed with ghosts (The Sapling, 2017)
Teenage Witch: growing up with Hermione (The Sapling, 2017)
HUNGRY GIRLS: Growing up half Malaysian-Chinese (Mimicry, 2016)
Somewhere Else (Salient, 2016)
Friendship Cove (Salient, 2014)
Toxicity (Turbine | Kapohau, 2013)
