publications

selected poetry

“Meanwhile” in AGNI, Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing (October 2023)
“Show Me a Mother” in Adi Magazine, 15: Omens — Mothers in Our Own Light (August 2023)
A Burning: An Abecedarian” in Southern Cultures Online (July 2021)
“St. Rose of Lima” in Plume (April 2020)
“Operation Babylift” in Kweli Journal (May 2019)
“/’məTHər/” in Guernica (December 2018)
"/ˈmīɡrənt/" in The New Republic (September 2018)
"Why I Stay" in Poetry Northwest, Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South (December 2017)
"Revisionist History" in Apogee, We Outlast Empire series (September 2017)
"The Night I Dreamed of Water" in The Collagist (June 2016)

selected prose

Books We’ve Loved: “Tiana Nobile on A. Van Jordan’s M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems in Poetry Daily (June 2023)
“Resistance and Reclamation: Three Poets Revise the Narrative of Transracial, Transnational Adoption” with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Ansley Moon in Poets & Writers (Nov/Dec 2021)
“Three Asian Adoptee Poets Reflect on Craft, Adoption, and Anti-Asian Violence” with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello and Ansley Moon in Catapult (August 2021)
“Subverting the Script of the Adoption Industrial Complex” in Lit Hub (April 2021)
“Haunted by History: The Poetics of Erasure” in The Writer’s Chronicle (February 2019)
”Asian American Poets Encounter the South” on Poets & Writers’ Readings & Workshops blog (May 2017)

interviews

“Writing into Negative Space (Absence)” with Sarah Audsley for The Common (April 2024)
“Duality and Hidden Meaning in Sweetbitter with Stacey Balkun for the Southern Review of Books (March 2022)
”Behind the Byline: An Interview with Yanyi” for the New England Review (November 2021)

broadside

"Revisionist History" limited edition printed by Bull City Press for the House Party Reading Series (February 2018)

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