Poetry, Essays, Other

Poetry

• “Relive”. North American Review [Forthcoming]

• “Before Sleep”. Storm Cellar [Forthcoming]

• “Hatshepsut” and “Bites”, Tampa Review [Forthcoming]

• “Fire”. Cherry Tree #8

• “The Girl”. Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. Issue 18.1 (Invisibility).

• “Life In San Francisco” and “The Heart of Longing”. American Journal of Poetry v10. January 1st, 2021.

• “New Yorkers”. Soundings East.

Essays

• “Why The Culture Of The So-Called Great Books Is Hostile To Trans People”. Lithub. April 14, 2023.

• “The New Weirdly Racist Guide To Writing Fiction”. Tablet. February 27, 2023

• “The Dreariness of Book Club Discussions”. Los Angeles Review of Books. November 22, 2022

• “If they want to be published, literary writers can’t be honest about money”. LitHub

• “Is There Any Real World For Our Kids To Return To?” North American Review Online

• “Are ‘The Classics’ Good For You?” The Los Angeles Review of Books. February 8th, 2022

• “Professors, Don’t Delude Yourself: Your Graduate Students Aren’t Aiming for Non-Academic Jobs”. Chronicle of Higher Education. November 29

• “The Myth of the Classically-Educated Elite”. The Los Angeles Review of Books. November 15.

• “Honoring And Remembering Trans Lives”. Sexual + Being.

Book Reviews

• “The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps“. The Rumpus. June 16, 2021

• “A Trans Woman Reacts to Andrea Long Chu’s manifesto, Females“. The Bind. January 8th, 2021.

• “The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf”. Strange Horizons. January 6, 2014

• “Dark Eden by Chris Beckett”. Strange Horizons. March 18, 2013

• “The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters”. January 14, 2013

• “Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear”. December 3, 2012

Dungeons and Dragons Articles

• “Myths of the Shadow’, DRAGON Magazine, November 2004

• “Gloves of the Common Man”, d20Weekly, January 2003

Miscellaneous

• Rahul Kanakia’s Potion Quest – a mod for Baldur’s Gate 2 that was later incorporated into SimDing0’s Quest Pack.

• Desai, Sonalde and Rahul Kanakia. Profiles of a Diasporic Community. Seminar: The Diaspora. 2004