Writing Books Mariner, 2026 Bloomsbury, 2019 Anthologies The Lab: Experiments in Cross-Genre Writing - W.W. Norton, 2025 Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us - Algonquin Books, 2022 The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison - Haymarket Books, 2022 Horse Girls - Harper Perennial, 2021 Go Home! - Feminist Press and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2018 Select Publications - Nonfiction “Hawai‘i the Local Way,” Bon Appétit “T Kira Māhealani Madden on Listening to the Past,” 100 Days of Creative Resistance “OBJECT: Julia Roberts Memorabilia,” The Believer “9 LGBTQ+ Authors on the First Books They Saw Themselves In,” Vogue “To the Woman in the Earrings,” Off Assignment “OBJECT: Julia Roberts Memorabilia,” The Believer “Writing Past Burnout, on ‘Ōlelo Hawaii,” Poets & Writers “I Don’t Love Horses,” Refinery29 “Caesar Salad: Anamnesis,” Autostraddle “When the Squirrels Are Over,” Catapult “Viewfinder - Stonewall at Fifty” Harper’s “Against Catharsis,” Lit Hub “The Greeter,” The Sun “No Rest for the Wicked Witch of the West,” NYLON “Grub Street Diet,” New York Magazine “Why You Like It,” Buzzfeed “Before He Died, My Father Took Me to the Olympics,” PEN America “It Should Have Been Lovely,” PEN America “Cousin Cindy,” Black Warrior Review “How to Honor the Dead,” HeyAlma “The Feels of Love,” Guernica Select Publications - Fiction “Judy in Her Good Robe,” Virginia Quarterly Review “Rapunzel,” Fairy Tale Review “Mr. Burley,” The Rumpus “Take the Shoes, Take the Girl,” Vice/Garage Magazine “A Brief History of Grocery Stores,” McSweeney’s “The Pamphlet,” Medium, Nightmare Fuel Special Issue “We Are Other People Tonight,” Midnight Breakfast “Later,” Tin House Online “Souvenirs,” The Kenyon Review “Missouri Theme Park,” The Austin Review “The Parts of Whom You Shouldn’t Know,” Puerto del Sol “Deliveries,” Hyphen “Laurence,” Fourteen Hills “And Then We Were Happy,” The Collagist
