Di Jayawickrema is a Sri Lankan New Yorker. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in The Pinch, Wildness, Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Her hybrid writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, included in Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and anthologized in Best Microfiction 2021. She is a VONA alumnus and an incoming Kundiman fellow.

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Q&A with Leila Mansouri, author of "Nothing to Declare"

By DI JAYAWICKREMA

That’s what I wanted to play with in the story – the tension between what’s basically Nazanin’s superstitious belief that following all the rules will protect her and the reality that it doesn’t.

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Q&A with K-Ming Chang, author of “Xiaogui / 小鬼” & “Arcadia” and The Offing’s new Micro Editor

By JULIA CHEN

I love that feeling of reading something that’s small and that feels like it leads to questions or to uncertainty or surprise.

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Q&A with Suiyi Tang, author of "American Symphony: Other White Lies"

By DI JAYAWICKREMA

If one presses on the amalgamated identity of the “queer femme Asian American,” it/she breaks down: but from her pieces we locate a larger geography of power from which she is made and remade.