Nina Sharma

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The Washington Post

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Publishers Weekly

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BookPage

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Khabar Magazine

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Lists

Gold House AAPI Month Book Club Pick

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Jefferson Country, Colorado Public Library AAPI Lives in Nonfiction List

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Debutiful

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Word Up Books 2025 Bestsellers

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Interviews

NPR

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Barnard Magazine

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Barnard Center for Research on Women

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MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale

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The Almanac

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Otherppl with Brad Listi

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Narratively

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KATU2 ABC features TWYMMF

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Red White and Brown

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The Indian Edit

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Chai and Chapters Club

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The Margins

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India Currents

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Immigrantly

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Oldster

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Penguin Random House Library Marketing

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Select Writing

“Remembering History” – 100 Days of Creative Resistance

Writing Co-Lab, 2025

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After Hours, a Postscript

Open Secrets, 2024

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Sacrifice

Literary Hub, 2024

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Memoirland

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Touch of Grey

Entropy Mag, 2021

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Shithole Country Clubs

The Margins, 2019

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Shithole Country Clubs on AAWW Radio

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Going Indian All The Way

Electric Literature, 2017

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A Brief History of Beauty

Women’s Studies Quarterly at The Feminist Press 2018

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Birthmark

Hematopoiesis 2018

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The Bride’s Goodbye

Anomaly, 2017

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Not Dead

The Margins, 2017

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Pee and Fury: Testing the Limits of Bladder Control

Longreads, 2017

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Livin, for Amelia

The Grief Diaries, 2017

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Peep

Banango Street, 2016

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Looking Out the Window Like Malcolm

The Margins, 2017

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Year One

Asian American Literary Review, 2015

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THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL

The Blueshift Journal, 2016

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What I Saw: Notes of a First Year Teacher

Teachers & Writers Magazine, March 2015

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Humor

When Mom and Kanye West Go Jewelry Shopping

Drunken Boat, 2014

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Parents’ House Writing Residency

Slackjaw, 2026

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Travel Advisory from the Department of Homeland Security: Teleportation Edition

Belladonna Comedy, 2026

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College President: We Need More Guest Speakers We Don’t Need

The Chortle, 2025

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Gregor Samsa Goes to Therapy

Slackjaw, 2025

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Are You A Banned Book or AR-15 Rifle? Take This Quick Quiz

Slackjaw, 2025

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Introducing the Latest Luxury Trend: Egg.

Belladonna Comedy, 2025

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The First Five Episodes of “The First of Us”

The New Yorker, 2023

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Other Ways Biden Might Have Greeted Mohammed bin Salman

The New Yorker, 2022

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Quiz: Is It Kate Bush, Eighties Nostalgia, or the Onset of a Fascist Apocalypse?

The New Yorker, 2022

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Racism Outshines Platinum Jubilee

The New Yorker, 2022

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White Limited Series

The New Yorker, 2021

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The Chorus of Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” Rewritten for Your Forties

The New Yorker, 2021

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Micro-Aggressions Velma Has to Look Forward to Now That She’s Been Reintroduced as a South Asian Woman

The New Yorker, 2021

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“The Conjuring 4: Critical Race Theory,” Reviewed

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Quiz: Joe Manchin or Jersey Mansion

Belladonna Comedy, 2021

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Jorge Luis Borges and Nancy Meyers Pitch a Movie (Because, Admit It, You’ve Watched Everything Else)

The New Yorker, 2021

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How to Avoid Ivanka

The New Yorker, 2020

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Op-Ed: My Friends Are On Season 1 of Racism, Can’t Wait For Them To Catch Up To Us On Season 446

Flexx Mag, 2020

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The First Five Episodes of “The First of Us”

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Racism Outshines Platinum Jubilee

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Micro-Aggressions Velma Has to Look Forward to Now That She’s Been Reintroduced as a South Asian Woman

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