Here is a sampling of my writing that’s available online.
On Writing, Craft, and Process
- In Praise of Rage | GOOD magazine
- Struggling With Theme? Try the Power of Socks | The Writer magazine
- An Introvert’s Toolkit: Shy about navigating a large writers’ conference? | The Writer magazine
- Hot Spots: Working on your first sex scene? 3 simple steps | The Writer magazine
- High-Five: 5 Great Structures For Narrative | The Writer magazine
- Write Like a Unicorn interview | Uma Krishnaswami blog
- Blueprint Your Book interview | Writing With a Broken Tusk
- Nondualism: Writing/Not Writing | Hedgebrook Farmhouse Table
- The Writer’s Clock | Hedgebrook Farmhouse Table
- Intimate History: Reweaving Diaspora Narratives [88KB pdf download] | Cultural Dynamics
- On Emerging [248KB pdf download] | ColorLines
Poems and Prose-Poems
Operation Unicorn: Field Report | Granta- A-list, grade-b dreams | Granta
- Decomposition | Plume
- Racism, Redacted | About Place Journal
- Dialogue of the Lady Monsters | The Missing Slate
- Angerfish | Lion’s Roar
- Modi by Obama | Philadelphia Review of Books blog
- Force Hexagram | Truck
- Cult Statue of a Goddess | TheThe Poetry blog
- Pole | TheThe Poetry blog
- “I am broken by the revolt exploding inside me” | Split This Rock
- Saying It/Not Saying It | Delicious Hem
- Elegy for the Gold Aunt | The Missing Slate
- Leftovers | Prairie Schooner: Fusion 4
- Pantheon and Midnight in the Hall of Buddhas | Sugar Mule
- Three Ghazals | Weber Studies
- Angerfish | Lodestar Quarterly
- Miss Indo-America Dreams | Lodestar Quarterly
- The Shallows | HOW2
- What the Sufis Knew | Bint El Nas
- House of Cards | Blithe House Quarterly
Performance
- Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium | Bint El Nas
Other Authors
- Interview: In Ibi Zoboi’s Fictional Worlds, Black Girls Dream in Color | Zora
- Review: Deer Table Legs by Katayoon Zandvakili | San Jose Mercury News
- Interview: Marrying Anita by Anita Jain | MSNBC.com
Essays, Ideas, & Opinions
A Brief Guide to Gender in India | Granta- Queer Eye, Right View | Lion’s Roar
- Indian author’s ‘death’ raises questions about freedom | Al-Jazeera
- #BlackPoetsSpeakOut, But Is America Listening? | Stir Journal
- How We Feel While Crowdfunding | Storia
- The Upside of India’s Renewed Ban on Gay Sex | TIME.com
- The New Sexual Extremism: On the dangers unleashed by the Supreme Court’s determinedly archaic judgment on Section 377 | OPEN magazine
- Why Does India’s Supreme Court Want Me Back in the Closet? | Zócalo Public Square
- What do NRIs Want? Let’s Start With a Diamond Ring | FirstPost
- What NRIs Can Do For You — No, Really | Gateway House
- Diaspora Delicacy: The Story of South Africa’s Bunny Chow | Outlook