Select publications - poetry

“Tegami”, “Evacuation”. The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration [anthology]. Ed. Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda. Haymarket Books, 2025.

“Preludes”. ARC Poetry. Issue 105: Fall 2024.

“If not trees”. CV2 Magazine. Volume 43.4: 2021.

“Your mother goes to work”. Canthius 8: Fall 2020.

“#teamkoi”. The Maynard. Issue 13.1: Spring 2020.

“Peacock”, “Robson/W Georgia/W Pender”. The Malahat Review 209: Winter 2019.

“Soil and sand”. Poetry is Dead 19: 2019.

“Trigger warning”, “Mementos”. CAROUSEL 41: Winter 2018.  

“Everything but smoke”, “am are is was were”. EVENT Magazine. Volume 46.1: Spring/Summer 2017.     

“Freedom”. Room Magazine. Volume 39.1: 2016.

“Research update”, “The good ones”. AlliterAsian: 20 years of Ricepaper (Arsenal Press, 2015).

Select articles, reviews, and interviews

The New Canadian”. The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Poetry review of Saturn Peach by Lily Wang, The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee, and RENDER by Sachiko Murakami. EVENT 50.2: Fall 2021.

“Ambivalent inheritance: Mercedes Eng's my yt mama. ARC magazine. October 24, 2020. Winner of Critic’s Desk Award 2020.

“Mythical Ambiguity and Nisei. Rungh. Volume 5, Issue 4: June 2018.

“In Conversation with Sachiko Murakami”. CWILA: Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. November 2016.

Select performances, readings, and events

WORD Vancouver: “Poetic Responses to the Archives” reading, Sept 16, 2023. UBC Robson campus. With Rina Garcia Chua. Mod. Krisztina Laslo.

Vines Festival - Our Stories Embodied: literary reading with Erica Isomura and Laura Fukumoto: New Brighton Park, August 11, 2021.

Playwrights Guild of Canada - The Canadian Play Thing: live interview and readings with Mieko Ouchi: broadcast on YouTube December 22, 2020.

Tadaima! Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimage: Block Party poetry reading: online, August 1, 2020. With Laura Fukumoto.

Heart of the City Festival: literary reading with Karen Tei Yamashita and Laura Fukumoto: Massy Books, November 9, 2019.

Powell Street Festival: “Re-pronunciation” literary reading, August 3, 2019. With Laura Fukumoto and Erica Isomura.

To Viola Desmond, 1946: art song collaboration with composer Jessica Rudman. Premiere: Art Song Lab, Pyatt Hall, July 6, 2019.

Anne’s Cradle (commissioned by Confederation Centre of the Arts): in-progress presentation at Polyphonic Multilingual Creation Residency (rice & beans theatre) May 30, 2024 (Progress Lab, Vancouver).

The New Canadians workshop presentation March 22, 2024 (composer Peter Abando; dir. Mieko Ouchi: Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver).

“Yonsei Mending Circle” – presentation for Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo, BC (co-devised and performed with Laura Fukumoto: October 1, 2022)

Mending Circle” – Powell Street Festival Telethon (co-devised and performed with Laura Fukumoto) Live broadcast: August 1, 2020.

The Girl With No Face professional staged reading – Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre MSG Lab (dir. Lisa Goebel) Playwrights Theatre Centre, 2016.

“Trialogue” professional staged reading – Ruby Slippers Theatre, Advance Theatre reading series (dir. Marisa Smith) Vancouver International Fringe Festival, 2015.

“La Petite Paquita” – SHIFT 1-Act Festival / independent (dir. Nina Boosheri) Evergreen Cultural Centre / Havana Theatre, 2013.