Writing

BOOKS

Permission  – Longlisted for the Believer Book Award – Dialogue Books, Coach House Books, Mondial, Safara Editore 2019. Secession Verlag 2021. La croisée 2025.

STORIES AND ESSAYS

“The Mare at Night” in Cassandra Complex: 16 Myths from the Margins (Dzanc Books, 2027)

The Same River Twice: Notes on Reading, Time, and Translation – Words Without Borders

Around the Bend – Stat®Rec

Foreword – Rut Hillarp’s Båge av Väntan  (Nirstedt/Litteratur 2020)

Cream – Best Women’s Erotica of the Year Vol. 6

A Breathtaking Display – The Skirt Chronicles Vol. 6

A Woman Screaming – Granta.com

Why Report on Desire? On Reading Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women – LitHub.com

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson – LitHub.com

men of a certain age: on sex, privacy and pornography – lithub.com, Edit: Papier Für Neue Texte, and Anuário Todavia

Sluts –  The Offing (Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention). Originally published as “Slampor” in Swedish Granta Issue 6. Reprinted in Still magazine Issue 5.

The Swedish Gangster Wife’s Handbag – The Paris Review Daily and Med Andra Ord

Unearthing Erotic Genius: On Rut Hillarp and Swedish Modernism – Music and Literature

the gap – visual verse

Down the King’s Trail – Elsewhere: A Journal of Place Issue 3 and Be Particular Out There Podcast

The Mango King – Catapult. Featured in The Ann Friedman Weekly.

Viva Erotica – The Quietus

Ways of Submission – The White Review

Bob Baker Marionettes – L.A. Downtown News

Americans and the Market for Foreign Fiction – Publishing Perspectives

Kwani? At Ten: The Making of a Pan-African Literary Community – Publishing Perspectives

“The West Is Running Out of Stories” Report on publishing in Nigeria – Publishing Perspectives

Gothenburg Book Fair 2013: Sweden’s Global Gathering of Book Lovers – Publishing Perspectives

When a Book Is a Stone: The Role of Publishing in Areas of Conflict – Publishing Perspectives

 

Interviews

“In Conversation” with Jen Calleja – Granta.com

Jeanette Winterson – The Granta Podcast

Sarah Hall – The Granta Podcast

Philip Teir – Publishing Perspectives

Lina Wolff– The Granta Podcast

Nicole Krauss – Granta.com

Granta Sweden – Granta.com

Tahmima Anam – The Granta Podcast

Ben Okri – Granta.com

Tania James – Granta.com

Sonia Faleiro – The Granta Podcast

Bani Abidi – Granta.com

Urvashi Butalia – Granta.com