Journal
Thoughts on craft, identity, and the literary life.
Craft
Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, and one of the most difficult to render on the page without tipping into cliché. Here is what I have learned from writing about loss.
Identity
Growing up between Urdu and English, between Birmingham and Lahore, I learned early that language is never just language — it is a whole way of seeing.
The short story is the most demanding and most undervalued form in fiction. Here is why I keep returning to it.
