Excerpts from How to Make Your Mother Cry
- “Ithaca Is Never Far” in Literary Hub
- “How to Make Your Mother Cry” in Evergreen Review
Essays available online
- “Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration: On Making an Illustrated Playlist with Shebani Rao” | Literary Hub
- “India West” | Blackbird
- “365 Pelham Road” | Mason Street Review
- Craft Capsule: “Break it Down or Shorter Forms” | Poets & Writers
- Craft Capsule: “Notes from the Cutting Room Floor” | Poets & Writers
- “Stopping In” | the Kenyon Review
- “Come Back to Me” | the Texas Review
- “Betsy, Tacy, Sejal, Tib” | Guernica
- “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
- “The World Is Full of Paper. Write to Me.” | Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali (originally published in The Margins)
- “Wedding Tales: From a Distance” (scroll to second essay) | Rochester Magazine
- “Things People Said: An Essay in Seven Steps” | Brevity
- “Married” | Waxwing Literary Journal
- “There Is No Mike Here” | The Margins
- “Ritual as Resolution: Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon” | Kenyon Review
- “365 Pelham Road” in The Big Brick Review
- “Curriculum” | noted in Huffington Post
- “Words as Image: How ‘Thank You’ Originated” | Brevity
- “Deluxe” | Kenyon Review
- “Thank You” | Brevity
- “Curriculum” | Conjunctions
- “Walking Tributaries” | Wellesley
- “Street Scene” | Kenyon Review
- “Bird” | Kenyon Review
- “Betsy, Tacy, Sejal, Tib” | Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America
- “Kinship, Cousins, and Khichidi” | The Massachusetts Review
The Kenyon Review Blog: In 2016, I served as a columnist for the Kenyon Review Blog. Links to those 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”
Short Stories available online
- “The Girl with Two Brothers” | Aster(ix)
- “Skeleton, Rock, Shell” | Conjunctions 69: Being Bodies
- “Dicot, Monocot” | Redux
- “Skin” | Route Nine
- “Mary, Staring at Me” | Meridians
Interviews
- “Tracing Literary Lineage”: Interview with Valerie Boyd | Creative Nonfiction
- “I’m So Sick of Things Not Changing”: Interview with Cathy Park Hong | Guernica
Poetry
- “The Granite State” | Ghazals for Foley (Hinchas Press)
- “Accordion,” “Everybody’s Greatest Hits,” & “Independence, Iowa” | Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry