Thank you to my mentors, William J. Cobb, Charlotte Holmes, and Josip Novakovich.
With family, anything is possible. All my love to the Chao family, Chen family, Juarez family, Lin family, and Shu family.
Friends and community are everything. Many amazing people have been there with me through it all—writers, artists, teachers, students—everyone from Taiwan to Pennsylvania to Vermont to California. Thank you.
Many thanks to journals that gave these stories a home: Amoskeag: “Cat Spring Roll”; Diverse Voices Quarterly: “Immersion”; Eastlit: “Mine,” “Rainy Night Stand Up”; The Externalist: “Crisp Skin Thick Soup”; The Evening Street Review: “My Strange Grandpa”; J Journal: “Writing on the Basement Wall”; Motherverse: “Betel Nut Beauty”; Melusine: “Daughter”; Sphere: “Simple As That”; Storyscape Journal: “Seven Pieces at a Time”; Timber Creek Review: “Passport Baby”; Wisconsin Review: “Yuan Zu Socializing”; Zyzzyva: “The Strange Objects Museum.”