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Essay: “My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and south Texas,” LA Times, Feb 2022.
Essay: “Invisible Lines.” Accolades: A Women Who Submit Anthology. Eds. Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera and Rachael Warecki, Jamii Publishing, 2020, pp 64-66.
Poem: “Rotation.” Altadena Literary Review 2020, Altadena Public Library, Shabda Press, 2020, p. 228.
Fiction excerpt: “Remembering the 1971 War from Karachi; excerpt from Black Wings;” India Currents, September 2019.
Short story: “Railway Track.” Houston Noir. Ed. Gwendolyn Zepeda, Akashic Press, May 2019, pp 219-238.
Novel: Black Wings (second edition). El Paso: Veliz Books, February 2019.
Poetry: “On Belonging and Other Poems.” Papercuts Nomad issue, edited by Sorayya Khan. Desi Writers Lounge, December 2018.
Essay: “They Will Make Muslims Out of Us.” Aleph Review, Broken Leg Publications, 2018, pp 212-216.
Essay: “When you’ve lived many places, how do you find home?” Gray Matters, Houston Chronicle, 1 February, 2018.
Essay: “Invisible Lines.” Borderlines Volume Three.Eds. Margot Backus and Maria Gonzalez. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries, Spring 2017, pp.115-120.
Essay: “A Delicate Matter in the Examination Room.” Lives column, New York Times Magazine, 2016.
Essay: “What Is Home?” Borderlines Volume Two. Eds. Margot Backus and Maria Gonzalez. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries, 2015. pp 29-36.
Interview: “An Interview with Shirin Herman.” Borderlines Volume Two.Eds. Margot Backus and Maria Gonzalez. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries, 2015, pp 22-28.
Essay: Skyping My Father Goodbye.” Gray Matters, Houston Chronicle, Houston, May 6, 2015.
Essay: No Borders: Delhi 25 Years Later. Aman Ki Asha, Karachi, Pakistan, February 04, 2015.
Essay: “That Long Monday Afternoon.” Borderlines Volume 1. Eds. Margot Backus and Maria Gonzalez. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries, 2014, pp 85-88.
Essay:”Bapsi Sidhwa’s Laughter, Tea and Novels.” Houston Chronicle, December 5, 2014.
Essay: “Bangladesh’s Unresolved History of Independence.” Creative Time Reports, December 16, 2013.
Essay: “The Story Behind the Stories.” Homes and Histories. Eds. Sehba Sarwar and Joshua N. Turner. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries, Fall 2013, pp 3-7.
Essay: “Invisible Thread.” Women Under Siege, Eds. Sehba Sarwar and Joshua N. Turner. Houston: Voices Breaking Boundaries: Fall 2013, pp 3-7.
Essay: “Freedmen’s Town Lives!” CITE 91, A Hand-Made Issue, Rice Design Alliance, March 2013.
Blog posts: Poet-in-Residence for Poets & Writers, October 2012: October 1. October 9, October 15, October 22.
Essay: Op-Ed: Observing social change, in Houston and Karachi, Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX, January 29, 2012.
Poems: “Doc. 101: Intro to Life and How To Live It and Why Are You Looking at Me like That? Vallum Contemporary Poetry, 9:1 | Winter 2012: 27-30 (Canada).
Essay: “Slipping Between Borders.” South Asian Review, Special Issue, Pakistani Creative Writing in English, 31.3. Co-guest eds. Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Waseem Anwar. October 2011, pp. 106-11.
Essay: “Devouring Mangoes with Gusto.” Dawn Books & Authors, 14 August, 2011.
Essay: “Think Global/Act Local.” Houston Chronicle Op-Ed. 30 January, 2011.
Essay: “The poor are the hardest hit by devastation in Pakistan.” Houston Chronicle, 12 September, 2010.
Essay: “For Choice.” in an on-line roundtable Pens and Swords. The Mantle, 26 January, 2010.
Essay: “Education is the key to peace.” Houston Chronicle, 17 October, 2009, B-15.
Essay: “Sisters in Struggle: Karachi & Houston.” CITE Magazine. Rice Design Alliance, 79 Summer 2009: 9.
Essay: “Heartbeat.” Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers. 32.1 (2009): 235-240.
Short story: “Soot.” And the World Changed: Anthology of Short Stories by Pakistani Women Writers. Ed. Muneeza Shamsie. New York: Feminist Press, 2008.
Essay: “Lives: Karachi’s Winter Days.” New York Times Sunday Magazine, 30 March 2008.
Blog post: “Street Signs: Karachi Graffiti.” Words Without Borders blog, 14 February 2008.
Blog post: “Kalidas in NAPA in Karachi.” Words Without Borders blog. 16 January 2008.
Essay: “Sisters in Struggle: Karachi & Houston.” CITE Magazine. Rice Design Alliance, 79 Summer 2009: 9.
Poems: “Why I Can’t/ Don’t Write About the War” and “Tearing Wires, Building Bridges.” ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature 3.4 (2008): 94-103.
Poem: “Tearing Wires, Building Bridges.” BorderSenses online Magazine, June 2007.
Poems: “For René” and “Jamshed Road.” Alhamra Literary Review, Volume 2, Spring 2007: 116-118.
Short story: “A Sandstone Past” in Neither Day nor Night: Pakistani Women Writers. Ed. Rakshanda Jalil. New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2007.
Novel: Black Wings. Alhamra Publishing, Islamabad, 2004
Essay: “Recovering my Voice.” GOOD. Ed. Mel Chin with support from Polly Koch (Essay commissioned by Toni Beauchamp.), Houston, 2000, pp. 18-22.
Currently...
I am working on a memoir as well as generating essays, short stories, and poems.
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