In 2020, she was one of several co-authors of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism, published by Columbia University Press.
[11] In 2020, Chihaya was the co-author of The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism alongside Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards.
[1] In 2023, Chihaya had earned a Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction for her then-forthcoming debut memoir Bibliophobia.
The judges stated: "Soul-baring, witty, and slyly provocative, Bibliophobia unsettles our most widespread and unexamined beliefs about books and reading.
"[13] In 2025, Chihaya released Bibliophobia, which discusses her complicated relationships to books along with several difficult experiences in her life.