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;

Poetry

  1. Dreamscapes, Pandemic Publications, June 26, 2020.
  2. Printers Row, reprinted in Anthology Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. June 2022.
  3. Dialect of Distant Harbors| Wanderlust Ghazal| Sleep| Three Poems, Dhaka Tribune, April 21, 2022.
  4. Supermoon. Newcity. April 2022. 82.
  5. Benign Negligence| Going back to Where I’m from|. Chicago Quarterly Review #35, Spring 2022. 94-96.
  6. Aphorisms from the Malay Archipelago | Keeping the faith | Monsoon, Delhi |Sleep|. The Mekong Review, Vol 6, Number 4, August-October 2021, 6. 
  7. While his Guitar Gently Weeps, I turn, Newcity, Summer 2020, June 4, 21.
  8. Hindustani Musalmaan: An Indian Muslim, (poem in Hindi/Urdu by Hussain Haidry, translated by Dipika Mukherjee and Udit Mehrotra), World Literature Today, January 2020.
  9. K Block, Chittaranjan Park, Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, (Also broadcast on NPR Illinois 91.9), January 2020.
  10. Saudade, Dispatches, The Common, January 2020.
  11. Dialect of Distant Harbors, Life and Legends, 7th Edition, April 2019.
  12. Sempiternal Fire, Life and Legends, 7th Edition, April 2019.
  13. Dynamite. Seven Poems by Chicago Poets, Newcity, November 2018.
  14. Generations; Migration, Exile…These are Men’s Words; Turn Away; This Shawl; Reprinted in Usawa, Issue 1, July 2018.
  15. Dreamers. Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. Vol. 29, Number 1, Spring 2018.
  16. Solomon’s Temple. Pirenes Fountain, Vol. 10, Issue 18, Skin Deep, 2017. 60.
  17. Awshukh; Disease, LossLit Magazine, Issue Four, May 2017.
  18. Descent from the Winter Garden, Damp Red Earth and Pouring Rain. The South Asian Issue, Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol 24, Winter 2017. 93-94.
  19. WINNER OF THE LIAKOURA AWARD FOR POETRY 2016 for reprinted It May have been The Third Glass of Wine. Also published in this issue, Migration Exile, These are Men’s Words. Silk and Spice: Pirenes Fountain, Volume 9, Issue 17, 2016. 108-111.
  20. Wanderlust Ghazal, RHINO 2016. 97.
  21. Death, A Crow, The Aerogram. September 2015.
  22. Pantoum for a Malaysian Evening, Dusun Quarterly, Spring 2015. 38-39.
  23. On an Ohioan Autumn, Remembering Reetika, Reprint in Travel By The Books: A literary Travel Journal, February 2015.
  24. Featured Poet at Poetry@Sangam. Rewound, Poets With Fierce Voices, Public Library and reprints of Migration, Exile, Turn Away and Calligraphic Lives. January 2015.
  25. Reprints. Mountain Echoes, After the Ice-storm, These Words Once Danced In Red Jootie”. Junoesq. Issue 2, November 2014.
  26. Fusion. The Aerogram. August 2014.
  27. Turn Away. The Aerogram. August 2014.
  28. Guan Yin in the Huangshan //《黄山一悟》. Translated and Original Poem. United Verses: An Anthology, edited by Tom Mangione and Charmian Wang. Shanghai: China, April 2014, 39-40.
  29. Printers Row, Chicago. In “East,West: Juxtapositions & Intersections”. Earthen Lamp Journal, #3, 2013
  30. Guan Yin in the Huanshang. In “No Place Like Home: Borders, Boundaries, and Identity in South Asia and Diaspora”. Sugarmule #43, May 2013.
  31. Migration, Exile, These Are Men’s Words. In “No Place Like Home: Borders, Boundaries, and Identity in South Asia and Diaspora”. Sugarmule #43, May 2013.
  32. Migration, Exile…has been performed at various venues by the Shanghai Indian Performing Arts Collective.
  33. This Shawl. Muse India, Issue 48, March-April 2013. (Special Issue on the Hyderabad Literary Festival Coverage).
  34. Say The Names. World Literature Today. 2012.
  35. Haiku: Autumn; Rain; Winter Morning. Haiku Journal. 2011.
  36. Calligraphic Lives, Terracota Typewriter: A literary Journal with Chinese Characteristics, Issue 7, Winter 2011, 4-6.
  37. This poem was previously titled Shanghai Shorts and shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, in May 2010.
  38. Mountain Echoes, Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2010. 31.

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).