Writings

Articles and Essays

“On Becoming a Bi Bi Grrrl.” Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists. ed. Kevin K. Kumashiro. New York: Haworth Press, 2003.

“On Growing Up Queer and Hapa.” Multiracial Child Resource Book. eds. Maria P.P. Root and Matt Kelley. Seattle: Mavin Foundation, July 2003. pp103-107.

“Hapas: the Emerging Community of Multiethnic and Multiracial APAs.” The New Face of Asian Pacific America. eds. Eric Lai and Dennis Arguelles. AsianWeek newspaper of San Francisco and UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center, February 2003. pp113-121.

The Emerging Hapa Community,” an excerpt from The New Face of Asian Pacific America. Printed in AsianWeek, November 2002.

“Developing a Kin-Aesthetic: Multiraciality and Kinship in Asian and Native North American Literature.” Mixed Race Literature. ed. Jonathan Brennan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, March 2002.

“Hapa Road Trip, Our Happy Hapa Hostess, Robles2, and Just One Half-Asian.” Oriental Whatever #9. Yellow Peril Press, 2000. pp 16-17, 50-51.

“Teaching Hapa-ness.” What’s Hapa’ning: The Hapa Issues Forum Newsletter, Vol. 7, Issue 5. San Francisco, Spring 2000.

“Pilipinos in Space and Our Dinner with Shawn Wong.” Oriental Whatever #8. Yellow Peril Press, 1998. pp 12-13, 40-41.

“Asian American Literature: ‘Foreigners at Home’ and ‘Japanese American Internment Literature.’” Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture from Astro Boy to Zen Buddhism. New York: Metro East Publications, 1997.

“Breaking the Soy Sauce Jar: Diaspora and Displacement in the Films of Ang Lee” (co-written with Eileen Fung). Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender. eds. Hsiao-Peng Lu and Sheldon Hsia-Peng Lu. University of Hawaii Press, December 1997. pp 187-220.

“Frank Chin: a literary biography.” Guide to Twentieth Century Literature in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

“Introduction” (co-written with Karen Chow). Asian America: Journal of Culture and the Arts, II. ed. Shirley Lim. Santa Barbara: UC Press, Winter 1993.

“Hua-ling Nieh: Introduction to Mulberry and Peach excerpt.” The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology. eds. Ishmael Reed, Gundars Strads, Kathryn Trueblood, and Shawn Wong. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Poetry

“Eating Dirt.” Too Mixed Up. eds. James Lawrence Ardena and Brandy Lien Worrall. Seattle: Mixt Up Productions and Isangmahal Arts Kollective, 2000. pp 37.

“Release The Wheel, What a Writer Is, and Calla Lilies.” Writings from the Long Table: A Collection of Works by the Students of Kearny Street Workshop. ed. Dan Wu. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 1999. pp 9-10.

Short Fiction

“The Spiral and the Cross and According to Legend.” Writings from the Long Table II. ed. Dan Wu. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop, 2000. pp 12-15.