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The Yale Daily News Magazine • 13th May 2020

INSIGHT: The Slow Art of Reheating Leftovers

To them, American food was fast: takeout, Happy Meals, instant rice. This cuisine left no room for all the anticipation they had come to expect from preparing a meal — waiting for water to boil, for sauces to thicken, for plantains to fry to a deep golden-yellow.

QA Poetry • 20th October 2020

Issue #29: The Good River

we who are left, for now,
find patches of grass to sit on
and rivers to cross
hoping for small bits of today to stand on
before we’re ravaged too

Newtown Literary • 10th December 2019

My grandmother gave light to the world seven times on this island

she’s cracked her hands open more times than that
split her palms every Saturday making linens white
mended them by the crackling fire each blue-black night

QA Poetry • 6th October 2020

Issue #28: Overdue

I am still a child when my mother starts showing me that to make a hollow space in a body means taking pains.

PEN America • 17th December 2020

Works of Justice: How to Write a Novel in a Month (During a Pandemic)

Writing a novel is hard work. Writing a novel in prison is even tougher. And amid a pandemic, when people on the inside are limited in their day-to-day activities, the sheer act of writing can be monumental.