INTERVIEWS, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS

A screenshot of a PDF. The left page has a heart cake that says "Our Signature Cake" on it, and the right page is the text from the essay. The story is linked below in the "Essays" section.

Interviews

A conversation between myself and Sarah Aziza about her debut memoir The Hollow Half, forthcoming in The Adroit Journal’s spring issue

A conversation between myself and Sindya Bhanoo about her story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, published inThe Adroit Journal, May 2022

A conversation between myself and Carlina Duan about her poetry collection Alien Miss, published inThe Adroit Journal, October 2021

Essays

“I hate divorce literature”, an essay forthcoming in Deez Links Hate Reads Season 2

The Things I Knew Before Me, an essay on writing, nose rings, and cheerleader crushes, published in Write or Die Magazine that was nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize, July 2023

Our Signature Cake, a flash essay on cake rusk, the colonial legacy of the Great British Baking Show, and diasporic identity, published in Zindabad Zine, March 2023

Book Reviews

New Questions of Faith, an essay on Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali for Northwest Review, April 2024

When Heartbreak is Legacy, an essay on Death and Exes by Sarah Bridgins for Northwest Review, June 2023

New Understandings of Death: Call Me Cassandra and Dear Senthuran, an essay in Northwest Review detailing the thematic conversation between Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi and Call Me Cassandra by Marcial Gala, March 2023

The Detransition, Baby Problem: Embracing the Everyday Failures of Womanhood, an essay on Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters in Northwest Review, January 2023