Selected Essays

• A Broken Link, The New York Times Magazine
• Don’t Grieve Alone. Reach Out., The New York Times
• I Thought I’d Get to See My Mother Again. Then the Pandemic Hit, Time
• Stories of transracial adoptees must be heard—even uncomfortable ones, The Guardian
• The Search for Madame Liu-Tsong, Vulture
• Magic Can Be Normal, Hazlitt
• I’m Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism, Time
• How Do I Talk to My Daughter About Violence Against Asian Women?, The Atlantic
• A Choice in Name Only, The Atlantic
• Not a Drill, The Atlantic
• How to Write a Memoir While Grieving, Longreads
• Mourning at the Magic Kingdom, Slate
• What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi, The New York Times Magazine
• What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism, The Toast

 

Book Excerpts

• People Want To Hear That I’m Happy I Was Adopted. It’s Not That Simple., BuzzFeed
• ‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine,’ Longreads 

 

Newsletter

• I Have Notes, The Atlantic

 

Selected Television/Radio/Podcast Appearances

• The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: Nicole Chung: All You Can Ever Know & the Challenges of Transracial Adoption
• NPR Weekend Edition: Family and Identity in ‘All You Can Ever Know’ (with Lulu Garcia-Navarro)
  
• BBC Woman’s Hour: Transracial adoption and All You Can Ever Know (with Jane Garvey)
• NPR/WBUR On Point: Identity, Acceptance Permeate Nicole Chung’s New Memoir of Adoption (with Meghna Chakrabarti)
• NPR All Things Considered: How to Talk to Kids About Anti-Asian Racism (with Audie Cornish and Christine Koh)
• Live Wire, presented by PRI: Hitting the Road (with Luke Burbank)
• KUOW’s The Record: On adoption, race, family, and All You Can Ever Know (with Bill Radke)
• KERA’s Think: A Korean Kid, Her White Parents, and Why That Matters (with Krys Boyd)
• WNYC’s All of It: A Memoir on Adoption (with Alison Stewart)
• KRCW’s Press Play: Nicole Chung’s search for her birth parents . . . (with Madeleine Brand) 
• KUER’s Radio West: All You Can Ever Know (with Doug Fabrizio)
• WNYC’s The Takeaway: How We Give and Receive Help During the Pandemic (with Tanzina Vega)
• PRI’s The World: On Team USA and Asian American representation (with Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and host Marco Werman)
• NPR Code Switch: Our Homeland Is Each Other (with Kat Chow)
• NPR It’s Been a Minute: One year later, the Atlanta spa shootings (with Elise Hu)
• Call Your Girlfriend: Fall Books (with Ann Friedman)
• Forever 35: Sephories Sale Season / All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (with Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir)
• The Stacks: Nicole Chung / All You Can Ever Know (with Traci Thomas)
• LA Times Asian Enough: Nicole Chung (with Jen Yamato and Tracy Brown)
• All the Asians on Star Trek: Away Mission with Nicole Chung (with Phil Yu)

 

Selected Profiles/Interviews

• Grieving His Mother’s Death, Ocean Vuong Learned to Write for Himself, Time
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Kelly Marie Tran Has a Story to Tell, GQ
• Kristi Yamaguchi, Unlaced, Shondaland
• Amy Tan on Writing and the Secrets of Her Past, Shondaland
• Constance Wu Is Making Her Way in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine
• John Cho, Sulu of ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ Navigates a Beckoning Universe, The New York Times

 

Selected Advice Columns

• I Have Notes: When Other People Don’t See Your Creative Career as “Work”
• I Have Notes: How to Write About the People in Your Life
• I Have Notes: Knowing When to Share Your Work
• I Have Notes: When You Aren’t Sure Whether Your Writing Is ‘Important’
• I Have Notes: How to Organize Your Writing Ideas
• I Have Notes: On Grief and Friendship
• Care and Feeding: My Son Is Bullying His Asian Classmate About the Pandemic
• Care and Feeding: How Do I Talk to My Asian American Kids About the Violence Against Our Communities?
• Care and Feeding: My Nephew Was Part of the Capitol Riot, and My Family Wants Me to Pay for His Lawyer
• Care and Feeding: We Don’t Want Our 12-Year-Old to Tell Anyone She’s a Lesbian
• Care and Feeding: My Teen Is Writing Erotic Fanfiction. Should I Make Them Stop?
• Care and Feeding: My MIL Is Way Too Strict With My Perfectly Normal Child
• Care and Feeding: Our Daughter Hates the Annual Family Vacation
• Nicole’s Care and Feeding advice archive @ Slate

 

Miscellany

• E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small, with Joe Fassler, for The Atlantic‘s By Heart series
• Judgment: 2020 Super Rooster Tournament of Books, Semifinals, The Morning News
• Judgment: 2017 Tournament of Books, Quarterfinals, The Morning News
• If John Cho Were Your Boyfriend, The Toast
• If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads (with Karissa Chen), The Toast
• How to Tell if You Are in a Famous Opera, The Toast
• How to Tell if You Are in a Korean Drama (with Sarah Jeong), The Toast