Work in Progress
Black tiger, white van. (Lyric memoir.)
Through a glass darkly. (Novel.)
Untitled. (Poetry chapbook.)
Novels, Novellas, and Collections
2004
Invictus. Pearl Street Publishing. (Film option with Torn Sky Entertainment, 2006-08.)
Prose and Lyric Essays
2021
Chaos Itself Is an Order. Fourth Genre.
2019
Easter in Sri Lanka: Today is loss that isn’t loss. The Paris Review. (Selected for The Rumpus’ “This Week in Essays” – Apr. 24, 2019.)
2014
ThisIsMyManifesto.htm. The Fanzine.
2014
Numerology. DIAGRAM.
2014
I am always in transition when disaster strikes. R.kv.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal.
2013
Notes to self. theNewerYork.
2013
White van fear. Black Clock, 16.
2010
I don’t know how to end this. Yoni Ki Baat: South Asian Vagina Monologues. (Performed for a live audience at Navy Memorial Burke Theater, Washington, D.C. on Oct. 30, 2010.)
Non-Refereed Interactive Fiction
2022
There is a reason they call it a theater. Ren’Py. (Visual novel written/designed for my dissertation.)
2016
Uneasy lies the head. Twine. (IF written/designed for Media Ethics courses.)
Story: You are “Radhika Mitra,” an Indian woman who lives and works in Delhi as the editor-in-chief of The World Daily, and presently the reportage and testimony about a string of local rapes awaits your review and approval before it goes to press. You have been warned numerous times. You have received threats. Your family and friends are supportive but don’t quite understand why this issue is so important to you. “Rape is the baggage of being a woman,” they say. You want to change this view, desperately. You also want to protect those who serve you. You also don’t want to die…
Content tags: Rape culture, extrajudicial hanging, screaming
To Play: Download the .zip archive of the game to your local drive. Open the .zip archive and extract or drag-and-drop the folder it contains to your local drive, then run the game in your Internet browser by opening the .html file from within that folder. For audio effects, make sure your volume is on.
2016
Selling upon trust. Twine. (Interactive fiction written/designed for Media Ethics courses.)
Story: Relatively young for the profession, you are Ali Cornwall, a living legend who embodies success. You graduated from columnist at The Daily Mail to freelance writer for Reuters to West Africa war correspondent at BBC. Your fearlessness in the field, stringent fact-checking, incredibly high standards, and natural storytelling ability has helped your career soar, as viewers can emotionally connect with you, recently landing you the coveted position of anchor for BBC London. “Ali Cornwall” is now a household name, and you think you want for nothing. But there’s new talent circulating, and you can’t help but hear about Giles Hall, the man who filled your shoes as war correspondent in West Africa, proving himself through his reporting on Ebola, Sierra Leone, The Gambia. Nothing is certain in this business. And with your upcoming broadcast, everything may be about to change…
Content tags: War, gunfire audio
To Play: Download the .zip archive of the game to your local drive. Open the .zip archive and extract or drag-and-drop the folder it contains to your local drive, then run the game in your Internet browser by opening the .html file from within that folder. For audio effects, make sure your volume is on.