My multi-part speculative poem for adults, "My Mother, the Exoskeleton" is on the shortlist for the Brave New Weird anthology. Apparently...

Once, I was a human girl. You wouldn’t know it to look at me now, but long ago, when devas and demons roamed the earth, I was a human girl who dreamed of being a dancer. The rains had finished, and the Kaveri River swelled threateningly close to the outskirts of the village. In no rush to return home, I sat idling by the riverbank in the marshy reeds, my toes in the water, dreaming of dancing. I wanted to feel the rhythm of the drums in my body, of the high flute winding arou

Please join me at The Writers' Loft during their Annual Literary Extravaganza and Winter Bazaar on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023. I'll be...