An essay about family reunions, secrets and the difference between being home and feeling at home. Published in Litro #184: Memory.

Essay Daily invited anyone to write about what happened on 12/21/2019, however we interpreted that prompt. They published submissions from 4-5 contributors at a time.

It was the week before finals at my small, mostly white, Midwestern campus when I heard my grandfather had passed away in Mysore, India. How do we grieve across continents?

I had to stop in awe after reading the first half-sentence of Jenny Boully’s Betwixt-and-Between, which contains sentences that open up into the sky. Reading that book was so unlike anything I’d ever done that I had to write about it.

Essay Daily invited anyone to write about what happened on 6/21/2018. They published all 250 submissions, but mine was one of 25 selected for the What Happened on June 21 anthology.

The joy of live theatre is that each performance is unique. But how is this performance of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos (transl: No Exit) more unique than any show I’ve ever seen?

Written during the 2016 world premiere of West’s play Rolling at Jackalope Theatre Company.

A memoir about an abusive relationship in which each chapter is written as a narrative trope: erotica, choose-your-own-adventure, daydream, musical. My favorite example of form that works just as hard as story.

A young-adult novel about Dimple Lala’s trip to Bombay in pursuit of home. Dimple is a photographer, her boyfriend Karsh is a DJ and the prose is lyrical and heavy on the images. The sounds are so important that I had to read it aloud.

A collection of essays about being a young Black woman today, incorporating plenty of cultural criticism that spans race, gender, size, sexuality and more. I like books that pay attention to their reader, and this is an often confrontational conversation.