About me...
I have three works of fiction: Shambala Junction (Aurora Metro, 2016) Ode to Broken Things (Repeater, 2016) and Rules of Desire (Fixi, 2015);
two poetry collections, The Third Glass of Wine (Writer’s Workshop, 2015), and The Palimpsest of Exile (Rubicon Press, 2009)
and edited five anthologies of Southeast Asian fiction (I have been mentoring Malaysian writing for almost two decades).
I moved to Chicago in 2012, after Shanghai, where I had been Distinguished Professor at Shanghai International Studies University,
have taught in the United States, India, China, Netherlands, Malaysia and Singapore,
now Core Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago and teach at the Graham School of University of Chicago.
I hold a PhD In English (sociolinguistics) from Texas A&M University.
A taste of my work...
Short-short fiction
(2018) Bangkok: 1959, Vestal Review, Issue 51: 8. Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2018. Best Small Fictions 2019
Poetry
(2020) K Block, Chittaranjan Park, Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, January
Short Story
(2019) The Unsevered Tongue. World Literature Today
Essay
(2018) Why are many Bengali rhymes and songs for children, loved for generations, so misogynistic? Scroll India, September
Travel Writing
(2019) Science Teachers Nurture a New Generation of Budding Ecologists on Redang Island, The Edge, Malaysia. July 22)
Book Extracts
Shambala Junction: Read an Excerpt on Aerogram
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