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Selected Essays

  • A Broken Link, The New York Times Magazine
  • What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi, The New York Times Magazine
  • Don’t Grieve Alone. Reach Out., The New York Times
  • The Search for Madame Liu-Tsong, Vulture/NYMag
  • 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
  • Magic Can Be Normal, Hazlitt
  • How to Write a Memoir While Grieving, Longreads
  • Mourning at the Magic Kingdom, Slate
  • A Bridge Between Adoptive and Birth Families, The Cut/NYMag
  • All-American, Longreads (originally published in Nasty Women)
  • 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

Selected Interviews

  • John Cho in Columbus Is John Cho as You’ve Never Seen Him Before, GQ
  • 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
  • ‘Failing Up’ with Leslie Odom, Jr., Shondaland

Television/Radio 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 (with Jane Garvey)
  • On Point, WBUR/NPR: Identity, Acceptance Permeate Nicole Chung’s New Memoir of Adoption (with Meghna Chakrabarti)
  • Live Wire with Luke Burbank, presented by PRI: Hitting the Road (fellow guests: Abbi Jacobson, Peter Sagal, and The Dip)
  • 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)
  • PRI’s The World: On Team USA and Asian American representation in Pyeongchang (with Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and host Marco Werman)

Podcast Appearances

  • NPR Code Switch: Our Homeland Is Each Other (interview with Kat Chow)
  • Call Your Girlfriend: Fall Books 2018 (with Ann Friedman)
  • Forever 35: Sephories Sale Season / All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (with Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir)
  • The Longest Shortest Time (with Jackie Sojico)
  • Slate’s Dear Prudence: The “Hot Mess” Edition (guest of Daniel Mallory Ortberg)
  • NPR Code Switch: Hear Something, Say Something: Navigating the World of Racial Awkwardness (with Shereen Marisol Meraji, Gene Demby, Karen Grigsby Bates, and Kat Chow), NPR

Advice 

  • Slate Care and Feeding advice columns

Miscellany

  • E. B. White’s Lesson for Debut Writers: It’s Okay to Start Small, with Joe Fassler, for The Atlantic‘s By Heart project
  • 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

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