LATEST:
— A Year in Reading: Jenny Bhatt. The Millions. December 2020.
— Meena Kandasamy Claims Space For Herself In ‘Exquisite Cadavers’. NPR. November 2020.
ESSAYS:
— A Year in Reading: Jenny Bhatt. The Millions. December 2020.
— Writers Recommend: Jenny Bhatt Recommends . . . Poets & Writers. October 2020.
— Craft Capsule: The Writer’s Mind on Music. Poets & Writers. October 2020.
— Craft Capsule: Revising Folktales and Myths. Poets & Writers. October 2020.
— Craft Capsule: The Art of Literary Criticism. Poets & Writers. September 2020.
— Music Playlist for Each of Us Killers. Largehearted Boy. September 2020.
— Craft Capsule: We Are All Translators. Poets & Writers. September 2020.
— On Books and Their Harbors: Public Libraries. Kenyon Review Online. September 2020.
— The Unexpected Politics of Book Cover Design. Literary Hub. September 2020.
— Emerging As a Writer — After 40. Longreads. November 2018.
— Why India Needs a Professional Association for Writers and Translators. Scroll.in. November 2018.
— But Let Us Cultivate Our Garden. The Millions. November 2018.
— Letters Between Writers and Editors. Scroll.in. May 2018.
— ‘Have you stopped reading? Here are ten ways to get back to books.’ Scroll.in. February 2018.
— ‘Six High Points of the Jaipur Literary Festival, 2018’ Scroll.in. February 2018.
— “On Domestic Abuse and Saving Our Men.” Hofstra University’s Windmill Online. May 2017.
— “Your Most Formative Literary Passages.” The Atlantic. October 2016.
— “So You’re The Only Woman on the Panel? Now Go In For the Kill.” The Ladies Finger, June 2015.
BOOK REVIEWS:
— Meena Kandasamy Claims Space For Herself In ‘Exquisite Cadavers’. NPR. November 2020.
— Night Theater: Surgery, Corruption, and Chekhov. PopMatters. February 2020.
— Speculation and Responsibility in ‘A People’s Future of the United States’. PopMatters. April 2019.
— Bringing Forth the Male Gaze in ‘Preeto and Other Stories. PopMatters. January 2019.
— What Commands Your Behaviors? On ‘Rule Makers, Rule Breakers’. PopMatters. December 2018.
— ‘Half Gods’ and Painful Fragments. PopMatters. October 2018.
— On Sound and Rhythm in Literary Texts: Angela Leighton’s ‘Hearing Things’. PopMatters. October 2018.
— On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Loss: ‘The Dark Interval’. PopMatters. September 2018.
— A. M. Homes’ ‘Days of Awe’ and Mastering the Art of Dialogue. PopMatters. August 2018.
— ‘Alone Time’ and the Joys of Solitary, Mindful Travel. PopMatters. August 2018.
— On Roxane Gay’s Republished Short Stories ‘Ayiti’. PopMatters. July 2018.
— Nowhere Is a Place in Tatyana Tolstaya’s ‘Aetherial Worlds’. PopMatters. July 2018.
— ‘The Storm’ has Heart, Urgency, and Ambition. PopMatters. June 2018.
— The Many Benefits of Travel: Paul Theroux’s Figures in a Landscape. PopMatters. June 2018.
— ‘Elements of Surprise’ and the Pleasures of Being Had. PopMatters. May 2018.
— Private Habits and Private Selves in Curtis Sittenfeld’s Short Stories. PopMatters. May 2018.
— The Intimate Politics of the Female Self in Danielle Lazarin’s ‘Back Talk’. PopMatters. April 2018.
— Did Women Writers Change the 20th-century New York Intellectual Scene? PopMatters. April 2018.
— The Pragmatic Sorcery of Madeline Miller’s ‘Circe’. PopMatters. April 2018.
— India’s ‘Bos Indicus’ Religion Is Explored In ‘The Milk Lady of Bangalore’. PopMatters. March 2018.
— On the Hidden Lives of Souvenirs in ‘Souvenir (Object Lessons)’. PopMatters. March 2018.
— Cycling Across Small-town India In Nautanki Diaries. The Aerogram. March 2018.
— The Promise of Redemption in ‘All the Names They Used for God’. PopMatters. February 2018.
— Appreciating the Wisdom of Ursula K Le Guin. The National Book Review. February 2018.
— “The Good Immigrant’s UK Voices Resonate With Universal Themes.” The Aerogram. October 2017.
READING LISTS:
— What to Read When You Want Story Collections About Working Lives. The Rumpus. September 2020.
— 10 Novels About Working Lives in India. Electric Literature. September 2020.
— API Heritage Month: Audiobook Recommendations. Libro.FM. May, 2020.
— #BalanceForBetter: A Short Reading List for International Women’s Day 2019. Scroll.in. March 2019.
— 20 Debut Works of Fiction by Women Over 40. Literary Hub. November 2018.
— Top 5 Stories That Shaped the World. BBC Culture. May 2018.
INTERVIEWS (CONDUCTED OF OTHER WRITERS):
— Take It Apart by the Seams: Vera Tobin on Your Brain on Fiction. PopMatters. May 2018.
SHORT STORIES COLUMN:
— Short Stories: Solitude and Loneliness. PopMatters. April 2020.
— Short Stories: Beginnings and Endings. PopMatters. January 2020.
— Short Stories: Siblings. PopMatters. July 2019.
— Short Stories: Later-life Relationships. PopMatters. May 2019.
— Short Stories: Journeys. PopMatters. April 2019.
— Short Stories: Animals Part II. PopMatters. March 2019.
— Short Stories: Animals. PopMatters. February 2019.
— Short Stories: Women in the Workplace. PopMatters. January 2019.
— Short Stories: The 12 Best Short Story Collections of 2018. PopMatters. December 2018.
— Short Stories: Parties. PopMatters. November 2018.
— Short Stories: American Writers of South Asian Origin. PopMatters. October 2018.
— Short Stories: Characters in Politics. PopMatters. September 2018.
— Short Stories: Women in Translation. PopMatters. August 2018.
— Short Stories: Refugees. PopMatters. July 2018.
— Short Stories: Surprises and Twists. PopMatters. June 2018.
— Short Stories: Fiction from ‘Sharp’ Women Writers Known for Their Non-fiction. PopMatters. May 2018.
— Short Stories: Casualties of War. PopMatters. April 2018.
— Short Stories: Souvenirs. PopMatters. March 2018.
SHORT STORIES:
ONLINE
— “Disappointment.” Jet Fuel Review. December 2017.
— “Each of Us Killers.” Kweli Journal. December 2017. [Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Short Stories]
— “Her Solitary Domain.” Five:2:One Magazine. May 2017.
— “Lili’s Song.” Hot Metal Bridge Literary Journal. May 2017. (NOTE: The magazine is no longer online.)
— “A Kentish Summer.” The Vignette Review. April 2017. (NOTE: The magazine is no longer online.)
— “The Weight of His Bones.” The Nottingham Review. March 2017.
— “The Golden Amulet.” Amazon’s Day One Literary Journal (Kindle). December 2016.
— “The God of Wind.” Gravel Magazine. December 2016.
— “The Waiting.” Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche: Spotlight. August 2016 [2017 Best of the Net Anthology Finalist]
— “The Symphony of a Future Memory.” York Literary Review. May 2016.
— “Time and Opportunity.” Litbreak. March 2016.
IN PRINT
— “Life Spring.” Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature and Art. May 2017.
— “The Prize.” Litro UK #160: Changes. March 2017.
— “Mango Season.” Eleven Eleven Journal. September 2016.
— “Neeru’s New World.” NonBinary Review. September 2016. [Nominated for the Pushcart Prize]
— “The Plinko Watch.” The Indian Quarterly. July 2016.
TRANSLATIONS:
— Rupali Ba by Jhaverchand Meghani (translated from Gujarati). Waxwing Magazine. June 2020.
OTHER BLOGS:
— Images as Writing Prompts. Writing Workshops Dallas Blog. April 2020.