publications

FICTION 

“Kerosene,” Michigan Quarterly Review (forthcoming).

Let All Our Ghosts Depart,” The Rumpus.

Silhouette of a Girlhood,” McNeese Review: Boudin.

In Lamplight You Are Made Whole,” Apogee.

A Pure Thing,” Yalobusha Review.

A Sweater for You,” Pleiades: Literature in Context.

Hair Bright as the Moon,” Passages North.

Blood and Bone,” Indiana Review.

Lobsters,” Soft Punk Magazine.

Sketches and Skeletons,” Souvenir Lit Journal.

ESSAYS

Language Lessons,” Roxane Gay’s The Audacity.

A Commencement Deferred,” The Yale Review.

Walls,” wildness journal.

Soft Still in Pain,” The Rumpus.

Yolk,” The Yale Herald.

POETRY

Parking Lot,” Boston Review.

Laila’s Window and Harshal,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Object Permanence,” Really System.

Lemons,” RogueAgent.

Iterations,” Yale Daily News Magazine.

READING LISTS, INTERVIEWS & JOURNALISM

Poetry Collection: Belonging,” Boston Review.

Poetry Collection: Empathy,” Boston Review.

Poetry Collection: Uplifting Women’s Voices,” Boston Review.

Poetry Collection: Award-Winning Poets,” Boston Review.

Radiant — An Interview with Nawaaz Ahmed,Scoundrel Time.

Mengxi ‘Althea’ Rao Strikes Up The Vagina Chorus,” New Haven Arts Paper.