• “Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration: On Making an Illustrated Playlist with Shebani Rao” | Literary Hub, 2021
• “India West” | Blackbird, 2020
• “365 Pelham Road” | Mason Street Review, 2020
• Craft Capsule: “Break it Down or Shorter Forms” | Poets & Writers, 2020
• Craft Capsule: “Notes from the Cutting Room Floor” | Poets & Writers, 2020
• “Stopping In” | the Kenyon Review, 2020
•  “Come Back to Me” | the Texas Review, 2020
• “Betsy, Tacy, Sejal, Tib” | Guernica, 2020
• “Ring Theory” | Literary Hub,  2019  (originally published in Strange Attractors)
• “Women at Work (Letter to Myself at Twenty-Six)” (scroll to second essay) | The Rumpus, 2017 
• “The World Is Full of Paper. Write to Me.” | Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, 2017 (originally published in The Margins)
• “Wedding Tales: From a Distance”  (scroll to second essay)  | Rochester Magazine,  2017
• “Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps” | Brevity,  2016
• “Married” | Waxwing Literary Journal,  2016
• “There Is No Mike Here” | The Margins,  2015
• “Ritual as Resolution: Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon” | Kenyon Review,  2015
• “365 Pelham Road” in The Big Brick Review,  2014
• “Curriculum” | noted in Huffington Post,  2014
• “Words as Image: How ‘Thank You’ Originated” | Brevity,  2014
• “Deluxe” | Kenyon Review,  2013
• “Thank You” | Brevity,  2013
• “Curriculum” | Conjunctions,  2013
• “Castle, Fort, Lookout, House” | The Asian American Literary Review, 2012
• “Walking Tributaries” | Wellesley , 2011
• “Street Scene” | Kenyon Review ,  2011
• “Bird” | Kenyon Review, 2010
• “Betsy, Tacy, Sejal, Tib” | Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America, 2004
• “Kinship, Cousins, and Khichidi” | The Massachusetts Review,  2004
• “Where Are You From?” | Catamaran: South Asian American Writing,  2003

The Kenyon Review Blog: In 2016, I served as a columnist for the Kenyon Review Blog. Links to those 12 essays and interviews are below:

• “You Have to Like It Better Than Being Loved”
• “Ghazals for James Foley”
• “Every Night Is Ladies Night: An Interview with Sonja Livingston”
• “No One Is Ordinary; Everyone Is Ordinary”
• “Trauma Privilege”
• “Aloha, Mother”
• “The Books I Kept: Part One”
• “The Books We Keep: Part Two”
• “Six Hours From Anywhere You Want to Be”
• “Most People Are Not Your Friends”
• “Temporary Talismans”
• “What Can’t Be Cast Off: An Interview with Fiction Writer Rachel Ha”