SELECTED FICTION
& ESSAYS

“A Disembodied Mother” (essay), Spread The Jelly, September 2025

“Unidentifiable Cells” (short story), Pithead Chapel, January 2025
☆ Winner of the Larry Brown Short Story Award 2024, judged by Danielle Lazarin

“Decision Tree” (flash fiction), BULL, March 2024

“Infanticide” (flash fiction), The Los Angeles Review, February 2024
☆ Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2025, selected by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

“Somewhere Halfway” (flash fiction), So To Speak, February 2024

“Color of Blood” (short story), Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall/Winter 2023
☆ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2024

“Devi Maa” (short story), Witness, Winter 2023

“First Summer” (short story), The Lumiere Review, June 2023
☆ Nominated for Best Of The Net 2024

“We Americans” (flash fiction), Flash Frog, April 2023
☆ Finalist for Best Of The Net 2024, judged by Kristen Arnett
☆ Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2024, selected by Maurice Ruffin

“HER TWINN” (flash fiction), Moot Point Magazine, January 2023

“Embracing My Hyphen: On Patels, Privilege, and the Names We Hide Behind” (essay), The Lipstick Politico, May 2021

Thank you to the editors who continue to take a chance on my work!