On Mixed-Race Families in America’s WWII Homeland Concentration Camps
“A Jewish Mother, Japanese American Incarceration, and the Impact of World War II Euphemisms,” PB Daily, Jewish Book Council, July 16, 2025
“Racial Obsession, Family Separation, and the Mixed Marriage Policy of America’s WWII Concentration Camps,” Densho Catalyst: History, Essays, and Opinion, July 8, 2025
The Tale of Elaine Yoneda, a Jewish Woman in a Japanese American Concentration Camp: The Strange Fate of Mixed-Race Families in Prisons During World War II, Literary Hub, July 10, 2025
“How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans,” Literary Hub, May 12, 2025
“Loving Day Is an Opportunity to Remember the Interracial Families Separated by the U.S.,” TIME Magazine’s Made by History, June 12, 2024
The Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy in US WWII Japanese American Concentration Camps, Densho Encyclopedia, February 25, 2022
Other Essays on Cross-Cultural Marriages and Multicultural Families
"Why I Won't Adopt," February 23, 2012, The New York Times online
“My father-in-law Made Me the Mother I am," November 8, 2015, Brain, Child online
"'Blind Spots' and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families," Aug. 31, 2016, The Wall Street Journal online
"Becoming a Japanese Housewife Made Me a More Committed Jew," Jun 12, 2015, Kveller
"Learning to Speak: A Cross-Cultural Love Story," Spring 2010, Asian Jewish Life
"A Life Together, Worlds Apart," Best Women's Travel Writing 2008
On Infertility, Natural Pregnancy at 45, and Later-Life Motherhood
"Writing a Book is Like Giving Birth? No, Not at All," Oct. 9, 2015, Washington Post online
"My Father-in-law Made Me the Mother I Am," November 8, 2015, Brain, Child online
"Why I Won't Adopt," February 23, 2012, The New York Times online
On Gender & Teaching in the U.S. Prison System
"Erasing Gender: A Woman's Journey Through Men's Lockup," Post Road
"Teaching Gender Issues to Inmates," The Chronicle Review
On Japan and Life Abroad
"The Trailing Spouse's Guide to Surviving Re-entry," Dec. 10, 2015, The Wall Street Journal online
"Expat Love Stories: From Sweet to Sultry to Bitter and Beyond," Feb. 9, 2016, The Wall Street Journal online
"Will There Ever Be a Rainbow Japan?" CNN Travel
"McDonald's vs. KFC for Japan's best 'festive feast," CNN Travel
"Land of the Rising Sox," Boston Magazine
On New England's Literary Landscape
"Journalism: Surveying New England's wealth of literary magazines," Boston Globe
"The spirits of New England," Boston Globe