Press
- Author Interview, The Forge Literary (re: “More Than a Lion”)
- “How to send a message without annoying your readership,” in The Writer (re: “The Augury of Bats”)
Writing Craft Tidbits
- Vancouver Flash Fiction tip
- Masters Review, “Writers on Not Writing” series
Awards and Nominations
- Nominee, Premios Ignotus award in Spain (“Coiffeur Seven”)
- Winner, A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Fiction
- Longlist, Forge Literary Flash Fiction Competition (“The Year of the Humming Turban”)
- Winner, The Henfield Prize for Fiction
- Winner, Best Feature (written by), International Women’s Film Festival, Miami (The Lesson)
- Nominee, Pushcart Prize, chosen by Joyce Carol Oates (“A Girl Like Elsie”)
- Quarter-Finalist, Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project
- Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future
Anthologized in
- Best Small Fictions 2023 (“More Than a Lion”)
- Lightning Strikes: An Anthology of Flash Fiction by Fifty Indian Writers (“Your Tomorrow Clothes”)
- Terra Mágica (“A Cor da Conflagração”/“The Color of Conflagration”, translated from English into Portuguese)
Grants
- Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholar (Clarion West)
- United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County
- Speculative Literature Foundation
- Fresh Voices Award (Odyssey Writing Workshop)
- North Carolina Arts Council
Artist’s Residency Fellowships
- Blue Mountain Center
- Wildacres
- Djerassi Resident Artists Program
- Headlands Center for the Arts
Reviews
- Review of Amrit by Charles Payseur, Locus Magazine
- Review of Amrit by Sam Tomaino, SF Revu
- Review of Amrit by John Lloyd, SF Book Review
- Review of Amrit by Kevin P. Hallett, Tangent Online
- Review of Amrit by Andrew P. Weston, Amazing Stories
- Review of Coiffeur Seven by Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews
- Review of Coiffeur Seven by Karen Burnham, Locus Magazine
- Review of Coiffeur Seven on Metafilter
- Review of Coiffeur Seven on Tangent Online
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