WRITING

BOOKS

ANANDIBAI JOSHEE: A LIFE IN POEMS, HarperCollins India, 2023

GEOGRAPHY OF TONGUES , The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, 2014


SELECTED POEMS

5 POEMS & A POETRY NOTE, The Punch Magazine

IN HER OWN VOICE: 9 POEMS & AN ESSAY, Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life

TO TOUCH THE SKY, Catamaran

OUTSIDE THE CHAUKAT & A VISIT TO THE SPRINGS, Pithead Chapel

FOR THE JAMUN TREE (IN AN ALL-GIRLS BOARDING SCHOOL…), SWWIM Every Day

ONCE THEY WENT OUT TO PLAY, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics

GHAZAL UNDER SIEGE, Scroll

MY MOTHER IS A HUMMINGBIRD, Poetry at Sangam 

A NEW TUNE, Scroll
(First Published in TAB: The Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2017. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

PORTRAIT OF A SOUTH ASIAN SILICON VALLEY HOUSEWIFE, Plume

THEY SAY THE (MUSLIM) BAN IS TEMPORARY & FAMILY PORTRAIT, 1978, So To Speak

TOUCHDOWN, What Rough Beast (Indolent Books)

WHERE I COME FROM, Scroll

LOVE LETTERS, Mithila Review

INDIA CALLING, The Missing Slate

FILED: MISC, Every Day Poems

LIKE ANY GOOD INDIAN, The Missing Slate (Pushcart Prize nomination)

1984, Drunken Boat

EMBRACING THE CIRCLE, The Missing Slate

LINGUA FRANCA & other poems, New Asian Writing

FEASTING, FASTING Prairie Schooner

GEOGRAPHY OF TONGUES, The Missing Slate

IF SITA HAD MET PERSEPHONE, THE ARC OF A FALLEN LASH & FAITH IS FOR THE TAKINGSugarMule, Issue#43 

SILVER BANGLES, In Posse Review, Web Del Sol.


ANTHOLOGIES

“For the Jamun Tree”, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English, Hawakal, 2021

“A New Tune”, Witness: The Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, Red River, 2021

“Of The Missing Fifty Million”, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, Haymarket Books, 2020

“Pineapple Pastry Flashback”, Salt & Pepper & Silver Linings, Read Me Books, 2019

“Hiraeth,” Anima: The Poetics of Mirroring, Squircle Line Press, 2018.

“Gyrations,” “Blue,” & “12 Floors & Counting,” In Plein Air, Poetic License, 2017


ARTICLES

Poetry Exemplifying a Global Voice, book review, India Currents, April 2019
Unmarriageable is Pakistan’s ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ India Currents, March 2019
Love Songs for a Lost Continent by Anita Felicelli, book review, Indian Currents, December 2018
From the Margins to Center Stage: a Sangam of Three Indian Women Poets, The Missing Slate, February 2016
I dream in Inglish: Guest Editorial, The Missing Slate, February 2016
Review of Meena Alexander’s ‘Atmospheric Embroidery,’ Jaggery, June 2015
5 Reasons Why Indian Poetry Matters More Than Ever, Scroll.in, December 2014

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