Book Reviews
“The Life of an Indian Princess, Cloaked in Mystery,” The New York Times
“A Return to the Okinawa She Never Knew,” The Washington Post
“The Body Politic,” The Nation
On Okinawa
“Naha Tsunahiki,” Chiburu: Anthology of Hawai’i Okinawan Literature (Bess Press, 2023)
“To the Poet Who Disappeared,” Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (Algonquin Books, 2022)
“Daisy’s Story: Filipina Migrants and Other Women in the Shadow of the U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
“How a Single Violent Crime Tells the Story of U.S.-Japan Relations in Okinawa,” Literary Hub
"Japan's Emerald Island," Travel + Leisure
"The Story Behind Okinawa's National Dish," Anthony Bourdain's Explore Parts Unknown
"The Perfect Day in Okinawa," Anthony Bourdain's Explore Parts Unknown
"The Stranger in the Shot," Hotel Okinawa, by Greg Girard (The Velvet Cell, 2017)
"From Shima Hafu to Daburu," Hapa Japan, ed. Duncan Ryuken Williams (USC/Kaya Press, 2017)
“Off Base,” Roads & Kingdoms
“Happy Hearts All Day,” Asian American Literary Review
“Ladies’ Night,” Kyoto Journal
“In Okinawa Last Summer,” Brown Alumni Magazine
On Mixed Race
“Who Gets to Be Hapa?” NPR’s Code Switch
“What Does a Multigenerational Mixed-Race Family Look Like?” Catapult
“What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette?” NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch
As profiled and excerpted in “American Girl in Asia,” in When Half is Whole, by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Stanford University Press, 2012)
On Japanese America
“Asian women and the kimono have long been sexualized in western culture,” The Guardian
“What My Grandmother Learned (Not to Say),” Hyphenmagazine.com