I am an Indian fiction writer, essayist, poet and columnist published in print and online in over 210 journals/magazines across fifteen countries. My writing features in The McNeese Review, Penn Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Citron Review, Passages North, DASH, Miracle Monocle, Timber Journal, Bending Genres, Contrary, Watershed Review, Amsterdam Quarterly, and Prime Number Magazine, among other publications. Four-times Pushcart Prize-nominated (in 2020 &2021), four times for Best Microfictions (in 2020 &2021), and for Best of the Net (2020), my work has also been translated and highly commended by editors including Longlisting at Wigleaf Top 50 2022, Honorable Mention in CRAFT Flash Contest 2020, Highly Commended at Litro Magazine Summer Contest 2021, shortlisting at RetreatWest Micro Fiction and Strands International, longlisting at Smokelong Comedy Prize 2021, Brilliant Flash and AWC Furious Fiction. The microchapbook ‘In the Glow of a Velvet Moon’ was published by Ghost City Press (Sep 2021). I have edited for multiple journals and am currently serving as the Contributing Editor of Vestal Review. Trampset publishes my columns every month where I reflect on writer life in conversation with the world and current events. My columns about being an outsider, & a BIPOC writer in the traditional publishing industry appear in Reckon Review.
My Latest Work

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- “This is It”; The PENN REVIEW, Flash fiction ISSUE 71 SPRING MAY 2022
- “Do You Know about the Funny Parcel That Got Returned” NECESSARY FICTION, June 22
- “Kaala Paani” FLASHBACK FICTION: Historical Flash Fiction
- National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand: Micro Madness, June 19, 2022 & Panel Discussion on Fairy tales and myths
- “Jamun” : NFFD NZ, Micro Madness
- “Close as Breath”, Pigeon Review: Flash Prose, June 15
- “The House in the Math Problem.” Summer online edition 2022 WEST TRADE REVIEW JUNE 2, 2022
- “Tone Deaf“: MiniSkirt Magazine: Star-crossed/Issue 13, June 10, 2022
- “On a Trellised Arbor”; Flash Fiction feature. Books Ireland Magazine JUNE 2, 2022
- “Unbelong“: MAYDAY Magazine Online; POETRY; April 28, 2022
- “The Quaint Hornbill House Story“: Ligeia Magazine; Poetry MAY 1, 2022
- “Where We Set Our Easel”: Commuterlit, April 8
- Insignia 2021: BEST ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION E-Book Anthology of ten Sci-fi/Fantasy stories compiled by Kelly Matsuura
- “Nomad” Poem: EXISTERE JOURNAL of Arts and Literature, Professional Writing Program at York University in Toronto, Canada (ESTD. 1978) : Issue 41.2 MAY 31, 2022
- “The Hope Mission is Nearly to Mars and Scientists Can’t Wait”; Poetry Night Heron Barks. JUNE 2, 2022
- Vestal Review: Writer interview with Maria S. Picone; June 11, 2022
- “Top Flying Advice for New Fliers” March Great Flash fiction Festival Throwdown Runner-up, Pub April 13
- “Dark Matter” CONTRARY MAGAZINE Flash Fiction, Spring 2022 Issue April 7
- “Angry Vikings Beating Drums” FLASH FRONTIER: Thunder-themed flash fiction, April 8
- “Honey and Cinnamon”: The McNeese Review Vol.59, Flash Fiction MAY 3, 2022
- “Prosody of Rains” South Florida Poetry Journal; Flash Fiction, May 1, 2022
UPCOMING
- DIAGRAM: Study of Pockets, Creative Prose
- ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS’ WORKSHOP: “A Crack in Their Porcellanidae Shell” Flash Fiction to be published in The Margins
- QUARTERLY WEST: “Signedora” Flash Prose
- Ruby Literary: “Panji Paradigm”; Flash Fiction
- Flash: International Short-Short Magazine “A TORRENT” in Issue 12.2
- LOCKDOWN BABYBABBLE: “Rainbow Tomorrow”
- ATLAS & ALICE “Where Fate Keeps Her Tools” Fiction
- Interview with Tommy Dean, Reckon Review, August
- + More
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