Selected Writing

Fiction

Imaginary Affairs - The Oyez Review (web, forthcoming 2024). 

Excerpt from Imaginary Affairs - Always Crashing (web, 2024). 

Lavons Le Linge - Dirt.xyz (web, 2023). Edited by Terry Nguyen.

I HOPE IN THE MORNING YOU’LL MELT - The Quarterless Review (web, 2023). Edited by Sarah Yanni.

Four flash pieces - Moot Point Magazine (web, 2023). Edited by Ashton Carlile.

Being Able to Distinguish Isolation from Despair, co-authored with Vi Khi Nao. De-Canon + Fonograf Ed. Hybrid-Lit Anthology (forthcoming 2023). Edited by Jyothi Natarajan and Dao Strom.

Cover Letter - Archway Editions Journal (web, 2023). Edited by Caitlin Forst.

(“_______”) - 128 Lit (web and print, August 2023). Guest Edited by Vi Khi Nao.| Pushcart Prize Nominee 2023.

K-Mart - Los Suelos (web, 2022) | Second-place winner of the Pets Pets PETS!!! fiction contest | Pushcart Prize Nominee 2022. Edited by Karter Mycroft.

The Aquarium - Brink Literary (print, 2022). Edited by Nina Lohman, Alisha Jeddeloh, and Jamila Osman.

God’s Eye - Sine Theta Magazine (print, 2022) | Nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 & Best Small Fictions 2023. Edited by Jiaqi Kang.

Pleasantries - Sine Theta Magazine (print, 2022) | Winner of the Summer 2022 Short Fiction Contest. Edited by Jiaqi Kang.

Machine Translation (excerpt) - Tiding House (web and print, 2021). Edited by Emily Constantino and Sarah Yanni.

The Chariot Awaits - Southwest Review (web, 2021) Edited by Mary Klein and Bobby Rea.

Sonata - X-R-A-Y Lit Mag (web, 2021) | Longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022. Edited by Crow Jonah Norlander.

Good Route, Bad Route - Joyland Magazine (web, 2021). Edited by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips.

Duckling - Autostraddle (web, 2020) Edited by Kamala Puligandla.

Home Video - Maudlin House (web, 2020). Guest Edited by Bud Smith.

Karen - The Nervous Breakdown (web, 2019). Edited by Joseph Grantham.

Nonfiction + Reviews

“Cheers to the Weirdos!”: Jesi Bender Presents a Heavy Feather Favorites List for 2022 (web, 2022) - Heavy Feather Review. Edited by Jesi Bender.

Review of Stella Lei’s Inheritances of Hunger - Heavy Feather Review (web, 2022). Edited by Jeff Chon.

A Solitude of Two - RJ Magazine (web and print, 2022). Edited by Greg Miller.

2 Essays - Hobart After Dark (web, 2020). Guest Edited by Bud Smith.

if i wanted to write about the south - neutral spaces (web, 2021).

Katatsumori - drDOCTOR (web, 2018) Edited by Sam Farahmand.

Flesh - Entropy Mag (web, 2017). Edited by Janice Lee.

Review of Qiu Miaojin's Notes of a Crocodile - The Asian American Literary Review “Stateless” Issue (print, 2017). Edited by Laurence Binh-Mui Davis and Gerald Maa.

Poetry

At Least, Be Human - Currant Jam, Fall Equinox Issue (September 2023). Edited by Emily Ann Zisko.

for B. - Peace on Earth Review (print) (2022). Edited by Christian Michael Filardo.

funeral parade of roses pt. 2 - Driftwood Press (2022). Edited by James McNulty.

funeral parade of roses | Q+A - The Margins. Edited by Dana Isokawa.

In Conversation With

Daisuke Shen in Conversation with Dong Li - Cleveland Review of Books (August 2023).

Daisuke Shen in Conversation with Parker Young - Full Stop (July 2023).

Daisuke Shen in Conversation with B.R. Yeager - X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (2023).

B.R. Yeager in Conversation with Daisuke Shen and Vi Khi Nao - The Rumpus (2023). Edited by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.

Daisuke Shen in Conversation with Bloodz Boi - (Chinese, InMotion魔魔音乐), (English)

Daisuke Shen in Conversation with Vi Khi Nao - Black Mountain Institute. Edited by Vera Blossom.

Mixed media

The Void is the Boundary between Heaven & Earth - zine, with Vi Khi Nao (2022).

Editing

Foglifter Journal, Issue 8 Vol. 2 - Guest Creative Nonfiction + Hybrid Editor (print, 2023). Co-edited with Kanika Agrawal.

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Fall Special Issue - Guest Editor, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (web, 2021). Co-edited with Liz Crowder and Crow Jonah Norlander.