Writing

Novels

SMASH HIT, Audible Originals, July 2025

THE WORST OF YOU, Audible Originals, May 2024

BORN WINNERS, Audible Originals, May 2023

CHINA WHITE, Audible Originals, August 2021

Short Stories

“Marineland,” The Cardiff Review, April 2016

“Turn the Soil,” Fox Adoption, April 2016

“Chances,” Eclectica, February 2016

“The Couch Surfer,” The Danforth Review, October 2015

“The Geddes Babies,” UNBUILD walls, May 2015

“Confessions of a Dental Assistant,” Room Magazine 31.3

Reviews/Interviews

You Can’t Stay Here, Thistledown Press (published: August 2018)

Kevin Chong, carte blanche (2018)

Backspring, Biblioasis (published: June 2016)

The Mystics of Mile End, Freehand Books (published: February 2016)

This Place a Stranger, Caitlin Press (published: November 2015)

Bunny and Shark, Bookthug (published: September 2015)

The World Before Us, Doubleday Canada (published: July 2015)

Creative Non-Fiction

“Curating Home,” a finalist in the 2018 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize

“The Ever-Changing Face of Leisure,” The Foreigner-Japan, March 2005

“Growing Nationalism in Japan,” Yomiuri Shimbun, September 2004

“The Perils of Japanese Pizza Delivery,” The Foreigner-Japan, September 2004

“Japan’s Culture of Fear,” The Foreigner-Japan, April 2004

“And This Little Piggy Cried Abunai,” Tokyo Notice Board, 2004

Travel Journalism

“Canyoning in Charlevoix,” fairmont.com, August 2018

“What to Do and See in the City of Saints,” lonelyplanet.com, October 2014

“Seven Reasons to Visit Toronto Now,” lonelyplanet.com, October 2014

“Sweet Dreams in Île d’Orléans,” Lonely Planet Traveller, June 2014

“Quebec’s Hottest Restaurants,” bbc.com, June 2012

“An Island of Local Food,” bbc.com, June 2012

“Montreal’s Indie Music Scene,” Houston Chronicle, June 2010

“East Meets West,” Canoe, February 2009

“Glitz and Buzz Put Macau Firmly on Tourist Radar,” Oakland Tribune, January 2009

“Culture Blooms in Toronto,” Houston Chronicle, September 2008

“Waking Up in Montreal,” Houston Chronicle, March 2008

“More Dim Sum For Your Dollar,” Houston Chronicle, December 2007

“Koya-san: Japan’s Mystical Mountain,” Wisdom Newsletter, Spring 2007

“Ghosts of Nagasaki Bay,” Travelmag, November 2004

“Homage to the Land of the Rising Sun Goddess,” The Foreigner-Japan, May 2004

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