UMass Boston

Books:

• OPTIONAL PRACTICAL TRAINING, a novel (Graywolf Press, 2025)
• BOOMTOWN GIRL, a collection of short stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)

Short Stories:

• “Boomtown Girl” (Solstice, Spring 2022)
• “Dragon Girl” (New Letters, Fall 2021)
• “A Very Full Day” (The Common, Fall 2021)
• “Independence Day” (SLICE, Spring 2020)
• "Final Exam” (The Bare Life Review, Spring 2019)
• “Jungleman” (Crazyhorse, Fall 2015)
• “The Footbridge” (Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2015)
• “The Western Tailor” (Narrative Magazine, Winter 2013)

Essays:

• “Who’s Afraid of Teaching?” (The Margins, Fall 2025)
• “Six Immigrant Novels that Employ Unconventional Narrative Structures” (Lithub, Spring 2025)
• “Between Two Cities” (Lithub, Spring 2023)
• “Moving Past Silences” (Catapult, Spring 2021)
• “We Had Time” (The Latest, Spring 2020)
• “This is My Country?” (Lenny Letter, Spring 2018)

Awards

• 2025 Whiting Award
• 2025 New American Voices Award
• 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award
• 2018 Yaddo Fellow
• 2017 City of Boston Artist Fellowship
• 2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship