​Podcasts, interviews and more

• Hivemind: Global Speculative Fiction Author Interview​
• Meet the Teaching Artist: Writing Fantastical Characters
• The Write Stuff - Litseen
• The Hive Poetry Collective on KSQD 90.7 FM
• Newfound Journal
• UCLA Extension Instructor Interview
• Writing like an Asian
• Gloom Cupboard

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This one time I went viral...

For an essay-in-tweets I wrote, featuring ramen, power rangers, and ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways.

Source: Noka Ramen's Instagram

With over 103k likes, and 16k retweets, I was then interviewed and/or featured in:

• ABC7 News
• NBC Bay Area
• The Washington Post
• Eater
• Distractify
• People 

(Other news media misspelled my last name Pirapoken with an "e" and welp.)

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Sample Readings

8-minute reading of an excerpt from "The Children of the Nareepol Tree," for The Write Stuff.

Reading in collaboration with the Booksmith and the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2020, with Laura Mullen.

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Sample Panel

The 8th NonfictioNOW Conference at Massey University, New Zealand,  on a Live Featured Digital Panel, “What is Distance to You: Lyric Intimacies in the Archives.”

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Honorable Mentions

Caught at 2:15.
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​This account has 498k subscribers, and this vlog alone garnered 108k views and counting.

Conversation with Kate Folk for Out There, in April 2022.

Conversation with Aimee Bender for The Butterfly Lampshade in 2020, and still think I'm dreaming.