writer of fictions & truths
Storyteller. Author of How to Make Your Mother Cry & This Is One Way to Dance
Sejal Shah (@sejalshahwrites): "In this month’s dispatch, I wrote about cat days, Kyoko Mori, analog alarm clocks, my love of local libraries, and reading with an ADHD brain."
Sejal Shah (@sejalshahwrites): "In this month’s dispatch, I wrote about cat days, Kyoko Mori, analog alarm clocks, my love of local libraries, and reading with an ADHD brain."
In this month’s dispatch, I wrote about cat days, Kyoko Mori, analog alarm clocks, my love of local libraries, and reading with an ADHD brain.
website: sejal-shah.com
website: sejal-shah.com
How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions
How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions
How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions In the eleven linked short stories of How to Make Your Mother Cry, Sejal Shah builds a shrine gleaming with memory and myth. Keys, rocks, photographs, fairy tales, fables, and relics all add texture and meaning to an exploration of growing up and living as a diasporic Gujarati woman ... Read more
This Is One Way to Dance Audiobook
This Is One Way to Dance Audiobook
This Is One Way to Dance: the Book
This Is One Way to Dance: the Book
"Even If You Can't See It: Invisible Disability & Neurodiversity" in Kenyon Review
"Even If You Can't See It: Invisible Disability & Neurodiversity" in Kenyon Review
“Yet why not say what happened?” —Robert Lowell I was in my midtwenties and studying in an MFA program when my mind began to slip. That fall, I survived my […]
100 Days of Creative Resistance: On Dancing Against Despair
100 Days of Creative Resistance: On Dancing Against Despair
13 Books by Indian Diaspora Authors You Should be Reading - Electric Literature
13 Books by Indian Diaspora Authors You Should be Reading - Electric Literature
A celebration of South Asian literature from around the world
LA Times: How Haruki Murakami and other writers are grappling with our surreal post-pandemic reality
LA Times: How Haruki Murakami and other writers are grappling with our surreal post-pandemic reality
'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' bears Murakami's hallmarks, including references to jazz and the Beatles. It also joins other new works in contending with catastrophe.
ROCHESTER TEN | SEJAL SHAH
ROCHESTER TEN | SEJAL SHAH
You Know You Can’t Help It, Who You Are | Mass Review
You Know You Can’t Help It, Who You Are | Mass Review
Sejal Shah’s playlist for her story collection “How to Make Your Mother Cry” – Largehearted Boy
Sejal Shah’s playlist for her story collection “How to Make Your Mother Cry” – Largehearted Boy
“A Sliver of Mirror”: Memory and Imagination in Sejal Shah’s Fiction Collection How to Make Your Mother Cry
“A Sliver of Mirror”: Memory and Imagination in Sejal Shah’s Fiction Collection How to Make Your Mother Cry
I met Sejal Shah in 2016 when I moved to Rochester, New York, to become the executive director of a literary arts organization. Shah was a beloved teacher there. We quickly developed a friendship a…
Buy Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy | PenguinRandomHouse
Buy Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy | PenguinRandomHouse
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience,...
Hunger Mountain Review Interview: Bending & Blending Genre
Hunger Mountain Review Interview: Bending & Blending Genre
Starred Review of How to Make Your Mother Cry
Starred Review of How to Make Your Mother Cry
How to Make Your Mother Cry: Sejal Shah’s intrepid short story collection "How to Make Your Mother Cry" is a polysemous encounter connecting auditory and visual modes. Interspersed with ephemera—memory-photographs, childlike drawings, Indian dance notations, a playlist of...
Interview with Write or Die Magazine (Chill Subs)
Interview with Write or Die Magazine (Chill Subs)
75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature
75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature
We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year
The Matter of Things | Wellesley Magazine
The Matter of Things | Wellesley Magazine
NPR Review
NPR Review
Newsletter Sign Up
Newsletter Sign Up
Sejal Shah Email Forms
LA Times Reading Guide to Asian American Literature: Best Books by AAPI Authors
LA Times Reading Guide to Asian American Literature: Best Books by AAPI Authors
Illustrated Playlist: Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration
Illustrated Playlist: Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration
Beyond the Black and White Binary: Collaboration by Black & Brown Writers (Writers & Books Taking Care Virtual Conference)
Beyond the Black and White Binary: Collaboration by Black & Brown Writers (Writers & Books Taking Care Virtual Conference)
NPR's Best Books of 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
Asian American Journalists Association End of Year Top 10 Lists
Asian American Journalists Association End of Year Top 10 Lists
World Literature Today Review
World Literature Today Review
Red Ink Series: On Making Choices in a Writing Career
Red Ink Series: On Making Choices in a Writing Career
Hyphen interview
Hyphen interview
Book Marks Review Roundup
Book Marks Review Roundup
Chicago Review of Books List
Chicago Review of Books List
New York Times Sunday Rec
New York Times Sunday Rec
Electric Lit: 9 Books by Women of Color on Mental Health
Electric Lit: 9 Books by Women of Color on Mental Health
Interview in Guernica
Interview in Guernica
On Zoom Indian Dance Classes Lifting the Heaviness of Grief in The Guardian
On Zoom Indian Dance Classes Lifting the Heaviness of Grief in The Guardian
Boston Book Festival: Memoir, Race, & Identity
Boston Book Festival: Memoir, Race, & Identity
Interview in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Interview in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
"There Are No Do-Overs" in Brevity
"There Are No Do-Overs" in Brevity
Brevity Review
Brevity Review
NPR Connections Interview
NPR Connections Interview
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