New in The Oxonian Review's 'To Write HK': @arghpoetica.bsky.social's translation of Tang Siu Wa's 'Swan Song' (驪歌): an elegant poem on translational solidarity set against backdrop of the 2006 anti-WTO protest.
'We have never arrived / so we will never leave' www.oxonianreview.com/articles/swa...
I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗
For @pawprinceton.bsky.social, I wrote a guide for the perfect day in my favorite city (and current home): Oxford! Find here an itinerary full of good food and sunshine-y spots, weather permitting... paw.princeton.edu/article/tour...
A new short story joins the Oxonian Review's 'To Write Hong Kong' column—steeped in the ambivalence of freelancing and the state of being in between: www.oxonianreview.com/articles/the...
A digital souvenir from an incredible conference in Oxford! (Plus my reflection on how creative non-fiction resembles my understanding of Quaker worship— how, at the heart of an assembly of distinct people and thoughts, we come to reach a universal middle that houses the stories we want to tell.)
Last year I often found myself at a crossroads, thinking: can the events that happen to us be explained by 'divine fate', or is everything totally random? The question made its way into this story, set in Berlin & published this month in La Piccioletta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/where-...
Tried my hand at writing a short short— a somewhat magical/mystical story about the thin border between rootedness and rootlessness, in The Hong Konger: hongkonger.world/2025/02/28/h...
A translation of Tang Siu Wa's 'Swan Song', translated by Michelle Chan Schmidt.
Officially arrived at Stanford, aka home for the foreseeable future! This England transplant is yet to be sick of the sun… does one ever tire of it? 🌞
“What the sentence says is that David and Giovanni’s romance will not last; but that meaning is scored to a music of rapture.” Amazed by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's take on affirming literature: that affirmation comes as much from style—an author's care—as the subject harpers.org/archive/2025...
New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.
