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
- What I Learned from Kristi Yamaguchi, The New York Times Magazine
- The Search for Madame Liu-Tsong, Vulture/NYMag
- Magic Can Be Normal, Hazlitt
- How a Pandemic Puppy Saved My Grieving Family, TIME
- I’m Tired of Trying to Educate White People About Anti-Asian Racism, TIME
- Stories of transracial adoptees must be heard—even uncomfortable ones, The Guardian
- How to Write a Memoir While Grieving, Longreads
- Mourning at the Magic Kingdom, Slate
- What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism, The Toast
- People Want To Hear That I’m Happy I Was Adopted. It’s Not That Simple., BuzzFeed (book excerpt)
- ‘Just Assimilate Her Into Your Family and Everything Will Be Fine,’ Longreads (book excerpt)
- All-American, Longreads (originally published in Nasty Women)
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, along with 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)
- 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 (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 Stacks: Nicole Chung / All You Can Ever Know (with Traci Thomas)
- LA Times Asian Enough (with Jen Yamato and Tracy Brown)
Selected Interviews
Selected 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 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
