small flying mynah bird

Other writing

Serkan Görkemli on Turkey’s Queer Past and Present

Electric Literature May 2024
Interview

Five Scents

The Margins Dec 2021
Short story

An Indian Muslim Family Is Torn Apart by Religion, Homophobia, and Politics

Electric Literature August 2021
Interview

On Island: Journeying to Penal Colonies, from Rikers to Robben

Longreads May 2017
Essay
Notable, Best American Essays 2016

The Undertaker’s Home

Ploughshares Winter 2016-7
Essay

The End of Coney Island Avenue

The Normal School Spring 2015
Short story
Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2015
Notable, Best American Short Stories 2016
Adapted into theatrical soundwalk

This is What We Could Have Been

The Kenyon Review Winter 2015
Short story
Notable, Best American Short Stories 2016

Scientists Have No Defense Against Awe: Interview with Eileen Pollack

Nautilus June 2016
Interview

A Coney Island of the Mind

The Rumpus August 2015
Essay

Imposters

Cura Fall 2014
Essay

Charm

Laundry April 2014
Essay

Got Moochh?

The Margins July 2013
Essay

The Kalhoni Experiment

Big Think March 2012
Short story

Letting Tinkerbell Die: An Interview with Jonathan Lethem

Fiction Writers' Review Oct 2011
Interview

Flame Lilies

Callaloo 2008
Short story