Publications & Awards

Here you can find all my published poetry. Much love to the editors, artists, musicians, authors, and others who have supported me and given my words beautiful homes!

Forthcoming

• Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest

  • “THE NEW COLOSSUS” (Laureates’ Choice, Jul. 2026)

• Telephone (art exhibit, Bangkok, Aug. 2026)

  • One Poem (the title’s a secret!)

• Rattle (Sep. 2026)

  • “iWonder”

• Free to Write: Essential Insights to Equip and Encourage Christian Writers of Color (Global Christian Family Books, Sep. 2026)

  • “Let my words”

  • “Lines Last”

2026

• The Lent Project (Biola University)

  • “Resurrection”

• We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity (Kristin T. Lee, Broadleaf Books)

  • “Deconstruction”

2025

• Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing (Fuller Seminary)

• Advent Art Devotional (The Lausanne Movement)

  • “His Hand”

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

• Art & Theology

  • “Undone”

• I’ve Got a Bad Case of Poetry (Bandersnatch Books)

  • “Appled Things”

  • “Dragonfruit”

  • “Outdoors”

• Matthew: Gospel Collection (The Soil and the Seed Project)

  • “Gethsemane’s Amen”

  • “Heaven’s Stair”

  • “Let my words”

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

  • “Providence”

  • “Resurrection”

  • “Your Voice”

• Rabbit Room Poetry

  • “Mary and Eve”

• Red Letter Wake-Ups (Red Letter Christians)

  • “Accent”

  • “Beyond the Burning Sea”

  • “Eventide”

  • “Failure”

  • “Psalm at Sea”

• Winter Words Poetry Collection

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

2024

• Art & Theology

  • “The Unfolding”

• Christians for Social Action

  • “American Altar”

  • “Image”

• Clayjar Review

  • “Gethsemane’s Amen”

  • “Providence”

• Commonweal Magazine

  • “Psalm at Sea”

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “Prayer”

• Firewords Magazine

  • “Beyond the Burning Sea”

  • “Outdoors”

• The Font

  • “Accent”

• Geez Magazine

  • “iRemember”

• Housemoot (The Rabbit Room)

  • “Cultivating”

• International Fellowship of Evangelical Students - East Asia Regional Conference

  • “Your Voice” 🎵

  • “Voice Matters” 🎵 (lyrics)

• Little Liturgies Vol. 9: Lent - Easter - Pentecost (The Soil and the Seed Project)

  • “Judas in the Upper Room”

  • “Keyhole”

  • “The Via Dolorosa”

• Little Liturgies Vol. 10: Ordinary Time (The Soil and the Seed Project)

  • “Appled Things”

  • “Cultivating”

  • “The Shallows”

  • “When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors”

• LogoSophia

  • “Eventide”

  • “The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh”

  • “How on Earth”

  • “The Shallows”

• The Mural

  • “Accent”

• Rabbit Room Poetry

  • “Covenant Prayer”

  • “Judas in the Upper Room”

  • “The Shallows”

• Red Letter Christians

  • “A Sonnet for Sonya Massey”

• Resolute Magazine

  • “Undone”

• The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal

  • “River”

  • “Stream”

  • “Walking in the King’s Park”

• Worship for Workers

  • “The Stories of Our Lives” 🎵

2023

• Art & Theology

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole Cover to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

• Asian American Christian Collaborative

  • “Loving”

• Chasing Justice

  • “A Psalm of Lament for Gun Violence in America”

• Christians for Social Action

  • “Advent” (On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People)

  • “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”

• Cultivating the Sacred Ordinary (Cultivating Oaks Press, limited edition)

  • “Covenant Prayer”

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “A Mystery”

• Foreshadow Magazine

  • “I Know Not Where I Go”

• Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest

  • “The Curse’s Crest Become the Church’s Sign” (2nd Special Merit, Traditional Sonnet)

• The Lent Project (Biola University)

  • “The Via Dolorosa”

• Little Liturgies Vol. 8: Advent - Christmas - Epiphany (The Soil and the Seed Project)

  • “Christmas Lights”

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

• Red Letter Christians

  • “Loving”

  • “A Psalm of Lament for Gun Violence in America”

• Ricepaper Magazine

  • “Accent”

• Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine

  • “Erasure”

• Worship for Workers

  • “Cultivating”

  • “Let my words”

  • “Spirit & Scribe (Writers’ Prayer)”

2022

• Asian American Christian Collaborative

  • “My Friends Have a Car in Louisiana”

• Commonweal Magazine

  • “Eventide”

• Dappled Things

  • “Eventide”

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “Judas in the Upper Room”

  • “Mary and Eve”

• Fare Forward

  • “When the storm has passed”

• Fathom Mag

  • “Let my words”

• Foreshadow Magazine

  • “Covenant Prayer”

  • “Cultivating”

  • “Lines Last”

  • “Sometimes Mercy”

• Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest

  • “Christ’s Coronation” (1st Special Merit, Modern Sonnet)

• Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry

  • “Appled Things”

• Red Letter Christians

  • “Image”

• Waiting with Imagination: An Advent Resource for Contemplative Activists (Made for PAX)

  • “Jesus Among the Insurrectionists”

2021

• Cultivating

  • “Cultivating”

  • “Failure”

  • “Spirit & Scribe (Writers’ Prayer)”

• The Ekphrastic Review

  • “His Hand”

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “Keyhole”

  • “The Shallows”

• Every Good and Perfect Gift: Finding Joy in Our Trials (WorldVenture)

  • “I Know Not Where I Go”

• Fathom Mag

  • “In Darkness”

• Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest

  • “Judas in the Upper Room” (2nd Special Merit, Traditional Sonnet)

• Made for PAX

  • “American Altar”

  • “Jesus Among the Insurrectionists”

• Red Letter Christians

  • “American Altar”

  • “Jesus Among the Insurrectionists”

• Remembering That It Happened Once: Christmas Carmen for Spiritual Life All Year Long (Resource Publications)

  • “Breathe”

  • “Christmas Lights”

• Solum Journal

  • “The Unfolding”

    • “Eucharist”

    • “Gethsemane”

    • “Crucifixion”

    • “Saturday”

    • “Resurrection”

• Web Weekly (Verse Daily)

  • “Jesus Among the Insurrectionists”

2020

• Art & Words Show

  • “20/20”

  • “His Hand”

• Asian American Christian Collaborative

  • “The Rule”

• Commonweal Magazine

  • “On a Cardinal Climbing Down a Manhole to Restore Power to 400 Homeless People”

• Cultivating

  • “Lighting Candles by Starlight”

  • “Lines Last”

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “Christmas Lights”

• Faithfully Magazine

  • “Fake Church”

  • “The Rule”

• Firewords Magazine

  • “Sometimes Mercy”

• First Things

  • “Covenant Prayer”

• Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest

  • “The Cross and the Lynching Tree” (2nd Place, Traditional Sonnet)

• Inheritance Magazine

  • “You Come to Me with Breakfast”

• Made for PAX

  • “His Hand”

• The Moth

  • “Tactics”

• The Poetry Pub Chapbook Vol. 2: 2020

  • “The Rule”

• Resolute Magazine

  • “I Know Not Where I Go”

• Simple Christmas: Reminders for Complex Times (WorldVenture)

  • “Breathe”

• Sojourners

  • “The Cross and the Lynching Tree”

2019

• Ekstasis Magazine

  • “The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh”

• Fathom Mag

  • “Breathe”

• Poems for Ephesians

  • “Husbands”

• Visible Poetry Project

  • “I Know Not Where I Go”

2018

• Faithfully Magazine

  • “Can I?”

  • “Permanent Separations”

• Inheritance Magazine

  • “When Ancient Time Shuts Tight Its Rusted Doors”

• Poets Reading the News

  • “The Train”

• What Rough Beast

  • “The Wound”

• Whole Life Soaps Haiku Contest

  • “Like Soap Does” (Honorable Mention)