FICTION
“Before You Dance” – Gulf Coast Journal, Winner of the 2024 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, FALL 2024
Commentary from selecting judge, author Zaina Arafat:
There's an immediate tension introduced in the first line that simmers throughout this story, one that exists between American and Guyanese culture and expectations, between the immigrant and first-generation, between the narrator's love for their family and their desire to leave home. The piece allows us access into so many worlds-- the narrator's world of dance, their family life, their inner life and rebellion, all with such rich observations and visceral details. On a line level, the rhythm of the sentences is perfect, the last sentence, a text from the narrator's mother, left me absolutely gutted.
INTERVIEWS
“Corbeau Don’t Eat Sponge Cake: An Interview with Kevin Jared Hosein” – The Rumpus, FEB 2023
“A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Daphne Palasi Andreades” — The Rumpus, JAN 2022
“Conversations with Contributors: Sarah Rose Etter” — The Adroit Journal, AUG 2019
“That’s My Story, Too: Talking With Malaka Gharib” — The Rumpus, APR 2019
POETRY
“Dream Vacation” — Visual Verse, OCT 2018
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Writer-in-Residence, 2024 – Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)