Writings

Most of my writings are either grandiose projects never completed or highly sentimental walls of text spewed out late at night over bottles of peach soju. But I try to write as much as I can, and I try to share these pieces of me from time to time so that strings of words might somehow thread our histories.

Comments/feedback always appreciated!

Published Writings

• [A Scarlet Letter] (https://languages.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/A-ScarletLetter.pdf), second place winner of the Isabelle de Courtivron Writing Prize 2022
• The Chinese on the Lion Mountain: Peering Into China’s Evolving Diaspora and Soft Power in Sierra Leone: written during my time in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which had a surprisingly robust Chinese population

Blogs

A compilation of things I write about:

• My personal substack, [shout into the void](https://suasn.substack.com/) : for personal/misc/random content from my life.
• [Freetown Lights](https://freetownlights.substack.com/) : where I documented the stories of people I met in Sierra Leone