Publications
Rain, novel excerpt
December 2020 Vol. 32
Yes, she says, this is a complex story and it has more than one moral. Sometimes there can be as many morals in a story as the number of listeners, understood?
The Last Place, speculative fiction
UEA Creative Writing Anthology: Prose 2016
She lies in a coma now. I said goodbye but I will not go until I get the news. I am of the old world and believe that children shouldn’t die before their parents.
AWARDS & HONORS
- Southampton Writers Conference 2022 — Participant in fiction
- Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2022 — Special Mention
- Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2021 — Tennessee Williams Scholar in fiction
- Community of Writers, Summer Fiction Workshops 2021 — The O’Dwyer Scholarship recipient
- A Public Space Writing Fellowship 2021 — Longlisted
- Mslexia Novel Competition 2020 — Finalist
- Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2020 — Longlisted
- Iowa Review Short Story Awards 2018 — Finalist
- Creative Writing Global Fellowship (for travel to Italy), Boston University, 2017 — Recipient
- Creative Writing, Boston University, Fall 2016 — Graduate Teaching Fellow
- Curtis Brown Literary Agency Prize 2016 for novel excerpt — Shortlisted
- South Asian Bursary, full-tuition scholarship 2015, MA, University of East Anglia, UK — Sole recipient
- Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship 2015, CUNY Baccalaureate — Recipient
- SIROCS Scholarship 2014, Creative Writing, Study Abroad (London, UK), CUNY — Recipient