Selected Essays

• What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi, The New York Times Magazine
• The Search for Madame Liu-Tsong, Vulture/NYMag
• 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
• Visiting My Sick Mom Could Put Her Life at Greater Risk, TIME
  
• All-American, Longreads (originally published in Nasty Women)
• The Worry I No Longer Remember Living Without, Hazlitt
• The Day After the Election, I Told My Daughter the Truth, BuzzFeed
• 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
• “I’ve Always Been Political”: Celeste Ng and Nicole Chung in Conversation, Literary Hub
• Mary Kathryn Nagle Asks Us to Remember ‘Manahatta,’ Shondaland
• Author Terese Marie Mailhot on Creating Art from Grief, Shondaland
• Jessica Luther: “We Have a Terrible Understanding of Consent in Our Society,” ELLE

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)
  
• 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

Other / 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: 2017 Tournament of Books, Quarterfinals, The Morning News
• Things I Wish I Could Say to People Who Comment on My Interracial Family, Quartz
• 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