She is the editor of "A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota" (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2016), author of "Unbearable Splendor" (Coffee House Press 2016), "Rough, and Savage" (Coffee House Press, 2012), "Skirt Full of Black" (Coffee House Press, 2007), the bilingual (English/Korean) illustrated children's book "Cooper's Lesson" (Children's Book Press an imprint of Lee & Low Books) and she was an editor with Jane Jeong Trenka and Julia Chinyere Oparah for "Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption" (South End Press, 2006), the first international anthology on the politics of transracial adoption edited by transracial adoptees. "Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption" was released in a Korean-language edition by KoRoot Press in Seoul, South Korea, in 2012.