Literary Journals
Three Anagrams, The Commuter (Electric Literature)
2026
If They Had Called Me Marion, The Margins (Asian American Writers’ Workshop)
2026
Manifesto, SWWIM Everyday
2025
Permission Slip, Whale Road Review (Nominated for Best New Poets)
2025
To The Chimeras of South Jersey, The Missouri Review (Runner-Up, Poem of the Year)
2025
Night Market, Only Poems (Poem of the Month)
2024
May Gray, Alta Journal
2024
Fault, Zócalo Public Square (Poetry Prize Winner)
2013
Journalism
Why You Don’t Want to Have a Baby in the Car, New York Times
2017
At an Irish-American Funeral Home, I Found My Chinese Roots, Zócalo Public Square
2014
In L.A., Marines Get a Feel for Death, L.A. Times
2009
Sleep is the Enemy, L.A. Times
2008
2007
Articles About Jia-Rui
Meet the Journalist-Turned-Poet Chronicling Her Cherry Hill Childhood in Her Debut Book, The Philadelphia Inquirer
2026
Los Angeles Author Wins 2025 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Fresno State Today
2026