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
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
Advice
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
