Short fiction

White Crane and Red Fox” (3300 words)
Heartlines Spec (March 2025)
A descendant of the White Crane and Red Fox clans struggles with a sense of belonging. (Fantasy)

“The first woman of the Qingyan Sect” (3900 words)
All Worlds Wayfarer: Into the Dark anthology (forthcoming Q3/Q4 2025)
(Wuxia dark fantasy)

Event Horizon” (3900 words)
Apocalypse Confidential, October 2024
A doctor specializing in last image corneal implants struggles with his work on eternal consciousness and the loss of love. (Sci-fi/speculative)

The Mid-Autumn Festival” (3800 words)
Luna Station Quarterly, September 2024
A recalcitrant sun goddess descends to the mortal realm to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finds more than she expected. (Fantasy/xianxia)
Review:
SFF Reviews Oct 2024

Fancy a Chinese?” (1500 words)
DarkWinter Lit Magazine, May 2024
Shortlisted for 2nd Anniversary Fiction Contest
A young woman struggles with her mixed race identity in a world that has homogenized food and is slowly erasing ethnic food culture. (Speculative)

Select non-fiction

Everybody hates Light Turner: Why Netflix’s “Death Note” isn’t as bad as you think
AIPT Comics
September 2017

Two sorts of people: a defence of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
The Pulp Press
May 2016

Storyworlds and narrative in video games
The Pulp Press
February 2015

Try an ancient martial art for fitness
Edmonton Journal
January 2014

The Island Utopia and the Chronotope: Temporal Distortion in Utopian Fiction of the Renaissance
Bristol Journal of English Studies
Issue 1 (Summer 2012)

Other activities

Former Editor-in-Chief of The Pulp Press (archived on Wordpress) 2017

Art by Hisurii

BRIDGES OF MAGPIES

Adult, Romantic Fantasy
Selected for the 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship Program

In a feminist reimagining of a Chinese folktale, rebellious Shizhi runs away with the farmer she’s forbidden to marry, but when a jealous Celestial Empress forces her to relive a past life that spans three realms, Shizhi must confront madness, tragedy, and hell itself to reclaim her freedom and save the man she loves.

  • Feminist reimagining of the Chinese folktale, “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl”

  • Forbidden love

  • Celestial immortals/three realms

  • Controlling parents and the quest for female agency

  • Bleeding for love

  • Travel to Diyu (the underworld)