Alongside my own published writing, this page showcases the publications where I oversaw its editorial direction as Editor in Chief and Nonfiction Editor.

Nonfiction

Location Not Found, Claudine Literary

Location Not Found is a micro creative nonfiction essay on being and liminal space published in Claudine Literary.

The Board Exam, The Kudzu Review

The Board Exam is a creative nonfiction piece that was published in Issue 68 of The Kudzu Review. It is inspired by my mother’s immigration story as an aspiring nurse from the Philippines. My piece appears on page 18.

A Sinking House, Vellichor Literary

Houses is a creative nonfiction piece that was published in Issue 06 of Vellichor Literary. It is a personal essay on the homes in which I grew up in the Philippines and their connection to the struggle of Overseas Filipino Workers and environmental injustice in the Philippines. My piece appears on page 39.

Bylines

Quiet Luxury and Loud Branding, Strike Magazine

An article on the dichotomy of “quiet luxury” and “loud branding.” It investigates the irony of fashion as signifiers of socioeconomic status and wealth. 

Can We Really Kill the Author?, The Kudzu Review Blog

An article exploring the modern implications of Roland Barthes’s influential critical essay The Death of the Author in today’s digital age.

ALBUM REVIEW: Mitski – Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, LIVE

A review of Mitski’s eighth album, “Nothing’s About to Happen to Me”.

Editorial Direction

The Kudzu Review: Issue 74

Issue 74 of The Kudzu Review was published under my term as Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.

The Kudzu Review: Issue 73

Issue 73 of The Kudzu Review was published under my term as Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.

The Kudzu Review: Issue 72

Issue 72 of The Kudzu Review was published under my term as Nonfiction Editor of the magazine.

The Kudzu Review: Issue 71

Issue 71 of The Kudzu Review was published under my term as Nonfiction Editor of the magazine.

Honors in the Major Thesis

The Three-Body Problem and the Paradox of China

available upon request

This is my undergraduate Honors in the Major Thesis on Sinofuturism and global power dynamics between the US and China. Chinese speculative fiction, or Sinofuturism, exists paradoxically as a genre that both subverts the Western colonialist structures of traditional science fiction and is confined by it due to China’s own paradoxical relationship to the West in the geopolitical realm. China holds a very precarious position on the world stage as the world’s second largest hegemon imbued with an inherent anti-Westness and relies on the manipulation of soft power for the continuation of such a status. China’s state-led capitalism and authoritarian governance contrast with Western liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. Yet, conformity to the West is key for China to survive in the liberal world order. This irony and difficulty of China’s current standing on the world stage is marvelously exhibited in The Three-Body Problem. I aim to situate the echoes of colonialism reflected in science fiction as a genre within the current global order and geopolitics, focusing on Sinofuturism and why China specifically has difficulty fitting within it as exhibited in the novel, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.