Essays

Excited to share my new piece which came out last week in Flyway Journal Winter 2022-23! Thank you to the editors at Flyway for shepherding my work through the editing process, and thank you to my sister who read five different versions and kept encouraging me even when the story wasn’t good. www. flywayjournal.org/non-fiction/just-dirt-and-some-animals-jacquelyn-leung/

published in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Fall 2022 The Planned Parenthood at 1055 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston is built like a fortress. It takes up most of the street, and shiny cement-like rocks line the gray walls like a castle. The corners of the building are lined with heavy metal about twelve feet […]

She stares down at the paper—with markings of high hills and drastic dips—rolling out of the printer. Baritone beats thump with an occasional note dropped. She’s making decisions about our fate that very second. “It’s not good, right?” I ask to be polite, but I already know the answer. Dr. Sun keeps her eyes on […]

Dr. Antonio Madrazo-Ibarra video conferences into our discussion from his apartment in New York City. The sun sprinkles diamond-shaped glints over the East River a few blocks away on a quiet Sunday morning. Antonio is wearing a white shirt, only accessorized with a black watch. He has short brown hair with a five o’clock shadow […]