Category: original work

Please join us on Monday, October 28 at 4:30 PM for a reading and book signing of Oriental Cyborg (Essay Press, 2024), at Wesleyan University’s Public Affairs Center (PAC) 101. A huge thanks to professors Indira Karamcheti and William Pinch of the new Global South Asian Studies for bringing me back to campus after all […]

The Killing of a Tiger (2019-2023) is a literary memoir tracing my relationship with the world–natural and otherwise. It is also a craft memoir of the process of writing it. Through my own experiences with gentrification, literature, video games, and disability, I tell a story about  human-plant-animal-resource relations – hybridizing cultural criticism about human and tiger […]

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Artist Elena Grossman and I co-edited an anthology of pandemic-era writing and art; the outcome is called ‘lumpenpockets,’ and it is a non-quarterly sickrag. It launched itself at Pete’s Candy in Dec. 2022. Bucking the productivity trend of magazine publications — and the idea of a publication calendar — lumpenpockets was two years in the making. Words […]

I am not a writer, declares the author in this essay that was demonstrably written. Once published online and branded a type of “disability essay,” the creation of this Japanese-stab-bound vertical book reclaims the essay, and undoes its publication. It becomes an artist book. It is edited, augmented, rewritten, before every reading and printing. Images […]

Oriental Cyborg, winner of the 2021 Chapbook Prize, was published February 2024. You can purchase it from Essay Press. About the book: Who is the Oriental Cyborg? asks Aditi Kini in this collection of notes, jokes, and queries into the provenance of a creature designed for labor, 3-D printed in the technoscientific post-colonies, modeled on old […]

productions & screenplays Problematic, Scripted Series Co-creator, writer, producer, production design Overnight, Twinkle Reddy goes from unknown media minion to viral sensation, forcing a reckoning with her newfound status as a hot take guru in an internet culture already pushing her to the edge. Co-created with Pranav Behari and Devyn Fusaro. BRIC TV series shoot […]

Upcoming Events PROBLEMATIC Hudson Valley premiere, Woodstock Film Festival, October 18 and 20, 2024 PROBLEMATIC West Coast premiere, Stareable Film Festival, December 2024 Past Oriental Cyborg tour, Spring 2024 Moderated panel “Trans* Poetics of Labor,” at the AWP Conference, March 9, 2023, Seattle, WA Reading, Rivulet Press’s “Together” with Teo Rivera-Dundas, Sarah Yanni, Sallie Fullerton, […]

Creative Writing “baby doll!” Hayden’s Ferry Review (online, audio, print) Summer 2023 “Writing Advice for Bodies In Pain,” Catapult “The Killing Of A Tiger,” Denver Quarterly Summer 2019 (print) “I Assimilate into Mere Bubbles,” The Rumpus “The Death Of a Symbol,” Lithub “The Stages Of My Life, In Usernames,” VICE Magazine “Privacy and Perception” Issue, […]