Essays
- “Many Rights Few Responsibilities”
Lit Hub
April, 2020
- “We Owe More to Our Young Writers”
Lit Hub
April, 2020
- Authors Remember David Bowie
Electric Literature
January, 2016
- Pineapple and Roasted Nuts: On Sri Lanka’s Enduring Love of Language
UK Guardian
October, 2015
[excerpted from Electric Literature]
- What is Feminism?
VQR Blog
November, 2012
- Favorite Children’s Literature:Yuri Olesha
World Literature Today
January, 2012
- Staying Hungry: On Enid Blyton
Pebble Lake Review
December, 2010
- In All Things Absent
R.kv.r.y
December, 2010
(Interview about this essay about my mother appears in R.kv.r.y as well)
- Guest blog on Writing Spaces
Savvy Verse & Wit
September 16th, 2009
- ‘I Am Not Now, Nor Have I Ever Been, An Adolescent’
Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 13 No. 2
The In-Between Age – Writers on Adolescence
- Bates Magazine – Winter, 2004/05
Safe from Sorrow?