Selected Writing
Fiction
The Pasture - Cleveland Review of Books (web, 2024). Edited by Zach Peckham.
Condolences - Action, Spectacle (web, 2024). Guest edited by Joseph Earl Thomas.
Imaginary Affairs, w/ Thom Hawkins - The Oyez Review (web and print, 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, w/ 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
Parker Young in Conversation with Daisuke Shen - Full Stop (web, forthcoming 2024).
Emma Burger in Conversation with Daisuke Shen - Write or Die Magazine (web, forthcoming 2024).
Rebecca Gransden in Conversation with Daisuke Shen - X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (web, 2024).
Chi Siegel in Conversation with Daisuke Shen - Sine Theta Magazine (print, 2024).
James Jacob Hatfield in Conversation with Daisuke Shen - Gemini Sessions (web, 2024).
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 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).
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.