Publications

Books

1. Writer’s Postcards. Travel Essays. Penguin Random House, November 2023;

    • Runner-Up/Honorable Mention, Book of the Year Award for Non Fiction, Chicago Writers Association, 2024.
    • Longlisted for The Society of Midland Authors Award (Richard Frisbie Award for Adult Nonfiction), 2024
    • Shortlisted for Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award by Interlochen, 2025

2. Dialect of Distant Harbors. Poetry Collection. New Jersey: CavanKerry Press (USA). October 2022.

    • Winner of the Quill and Ink Award for Poetry, 2023;
    • Shortlisted for a Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Award, 2024;

3. Le Langue de Khawnaa, Story Chapbook of The Unsevered Tongue. Translated from English by Claire Blanchaud. Paris: Banyan Editions (France). January 2022;

4. Shambala Junction. Novel. Twickenham: Aurora Metro Books.. November 2016

    • Winner of the 4th Virginia Prize for Fiction;

5. Ode to Broken Things. Novel. London: Repeater Books, (UK). May 2016. Originally published as Thunder Demons, New Delhi: Gyaana Books, (India). July 2011.

    • Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize;

6. The Third Glass of Wine. Poetry Collection. Kolkata: Writers Workshop, (India). December 2015;

7. Rules of Desire. Short Story Collection. Kuala Lumpur: Buku Fixi, (Malaysia). November 2015;

8. The Palimpsest of Exile, Poetry Chapbook. Alberta: Rubicon, (Canada). July 2009;

Edited Books

1. Wish You Were Here. (An Anthology of Stories from The Dutt Award for Literary Excellence, Malaysia). Kuala Lumpur: Sunway University Press, (Malaysia). November 2026, (ed with Sharon Bakar). Forthcoming.

2. Endings and Beginnings (An Anthology of Stories from The Dutt Award for Literary Excellence, Malaysia). Kuala Lumpur: WordsWorks, (Malaysia). November 2018, (ed with Sharon Bakar).

3. Bitter Roots, Sweet Fruit (An Anthology of Stories from The Dutt Award for Literary Excellence, Malaysia). Kuala Lumpur: WordsWorks, (Malaysia). 2017, (ed with Sharon Bakar).

4. Champion Fellas! (An Anthology of Stories from The Dutt Award for Literary Excellence, Malaysia). Kuala Lumpur: WordsWorks, (Malaysia). 2016, (ed with Sharon Bakar).

5. National Language Planning & Language Shifts in Malaysian Minority Communities: Speaking in Many Tongues. ICAS/IIAS Series, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, (Netherlands). 2011 (ed. with David, M).

6. Silverfish New Writing 6: New Writing from Malaysia, Singapore and Beyond, Kuala Lumpur: Silverfish, (Malaysia). 2006 (ed).

7 . The Merlion and the Hibiscus: Contemporary Short Stories from Singapore and Malaysia. New Delhi: Penguin, (India).  2002 (ed. with Kirpal Singh and M.A. Quayum).