Other Work

SHORT STORIES

• “A Flame So Bright” — At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined edited by Dahlia Adler (Flatiron Books, 2022)

• “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” — Fools in Love edited by Rebecca Podos and Ashley Herring-Blake (Running Press, 2021)

• “Don’t Speak” — The New York Times (2019)

• “Red” — Foreshadow, 2019

• “We Could Be Heroes” — Autostraddle (2018)

• "Meet Cute" — Fresh Ink edited by Lamar Giles (Crown, 2018)

• "New Year" — All Out: The No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (HarlequinTeen, 2018)

• "The Cure" — Interfictions (2015)

• "The Twelfth Girl" — Grim edited by Christine Johnson (Harlequin Teen, 2014)

• "Ghost Town" — Defy the Dark edited by Saundra Mitchell (HarperTeen, 2013)

  • Reprinted in Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 edited by Julia Rios & Alisa Krasnostein (Kaleidoscope, 2014)

  • Reprinted in Uncanny Magazine Issue 18 (September/October 2017)

• "One True Love" — Foretold edited by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte, 2012)

  • Reprinted in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction edited by Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Lethe Press, August 2013)

  • Reprinted in Lightspeed (Feb. 2018, Issue 93)

• "Good Girl" — Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (Tu Books, 2012)

  • Reprinted in Futuredaze 2: Reprise (Underwords Press, 2014)

• "The Fox" — Subterranean Online, 2011; reprinted in Huntress, 2012

OTHER FICTION

• Tremontaine — Serial Box Publishing (2015-16); Saga Press print edition (May 2, 2017)

ESSAYS

• “Keep Doing What You're Doing” — How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation edited by Maureen Johnson (Wednesday Books, 2018)

• “A Sort of Fairy Tale” — Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living edited by Manjula Martin (Simon & Schuster, 2017)

• “Forever Feminist” — Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen (Algonquin Young Readers, 2017)

• “Dear Malinda, Age 16” — The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)

SELECT CLIPS

• "Dream On, Amber" and "Full Cicada Moon" — The New York Times Book Review (Nov. 6, 2015)

• Transformers: Reimagining the World — The Horn Book (June 2015)

• Battle of the Kids Books 2014: Rose Under Fire vs. The Thing About Luck — School Library Journal (March 18, 2014)

• A Second Female Author Talks About Sexism and Self-Promotion — The Toast (Nov. 12, 2013)

• NaNoWriMo 2013 Pep Talk — NaNoWriMo.org (November 2013)

• On Bisexual Love Triangles — The Book Smugglers (Sept. 24, 2013)

• Turning Point — Distraction 99 (Sept. 7, 2012)

• 10 LGBTQ Young Adult Novels To Make It Better — The Huffington Post (July 19, 2012)

• "Miseducation": A Cowgirl Coming-Out Story for Teens — NPR (Feb. 7, 2012)

• Girls Girls Girls: A Trio of Epic Adventures — NPR (May 25, 2011)

• A Healthy Dose of Diversity — School Library Journal (May 1, 2011)

• My Coming-Out Story — AfterEllen (April 19, 2009); republished on my website

PREVIOUSLY

From 2003-09, I was a contributing writer and ultimately managing editor at AfterEllen.com, which at one point was the largest website in the world for lesbian and bisexual women. Due to multiple site redesigns and several new site owners, my original articles are no longer easily accessible, but during those years I was a member of the Television Critics Association and wrote numerous reviews of TV shows, films, and books; interviewed people ranging from Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and author Sarah Waters (Fingersmith) to actor Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and musician Melissa Etheridge; and wrote two columns.

I was also associate editor at Curve magazine (2006), the U.S.'s top-selling lesbian magazine; and wrote freelance articles for a variety of publications including Girlfriends, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and the Lesbian News.

As a graduate student at Harvard and Stanford, I was lucky enough to study subjects that were both fun and fascinating. At Harvard, I earned my M.A. in Regional Studies—East Asia, and wrote my master’s thesis on the cultural meanings of Chinese cookbooks in America. Later, that research was turned into my first-year paper at Stanford, where I went through part of a Ph.D. program in Cultural and Social Anthropology. At Stanford, my research focused on popular culture and particularly the culture of online fandom. To that end, I researched The X-Files, one of the earliest television shows to develop a dedicated online fan base. The following research projects are the results of this graduate work.

Building The X-Files: Television Production, Authorship, and Discourse

In the summer of 2001, funded by a Mellon Foundation grant, I spent two months in Los Angeles conducting fieldwork on the entertainment industry. In addition to interviewing numerous screenwriters and producers, I spent one week at the offices of 1013 Productions, the production company behind The X-Files. I observed the filming of an episode, sat in on production meetings, and interviewed the executive producers. This paper is the result of that research. 

“Authentic” Chinese Food: Chinese American Cookbooks and the Regulation of Ethnic Identity

This paper is a revised version of my Harvard University master’s thesis in Regional Studies-East Asia (2000), and was written while I was a Ph.D. student in Stanford University’s Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. It was delivered as a paper at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in March 2001.