Books
Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss, and a Home in Time. Author. Minneapolis: Trio House Press, 2025. Coming October 1. A memoir in essays, written over a span of ten years. Winner of the 2024 Aurora Polaris Prize in creative nonfiction.
Critical Perspectives on Chitra Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora. Coeditor, with Amritjit Singh and Robin Field. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), 2022.
Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature. Coeditor, with Zhou Xiaojing. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2005. Print. Collection of critical essays on Asian American appropriations and transformations of mainstream literary genres and discursive strategies.
White Women in Racialized Spaces: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature. Coeditor and Introduction, with Rajini Srikanth. Albany: SUNY P, 2002. Print. Critical essays on historical and literary representations of white women’s interactions with people of color globally, and the political and ethical ramifications of their relations.
The Heart of Hyacinth. By Onoto Watanna. Editor and Introduction. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2000. Print. Reissue of a 1903 novel by Asian America’s first novelist.
