Other Writings
Short Stories
“MAJNUN”
From The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Finalist for the World Fantasy, Locus and Shirley Jackson Awards for Best Anthology.
Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn.
A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers, including Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Helene Wecker, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Mahjoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Saad Hossain, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria and Usman Malik.
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Essays & Guest Posts
Jewish Book Council: The Girl I Made from Research
"Slowly, over drafts and rewrites, she became a neglected prodigy, a silent, watchful girl who teaches herself to read Hebrew and study Talmud, even helping her father build Yossele when it becomes clear that he can’t accomplish it alone.”
Fantasy Book Café: Sequels and Second Acts
"These were characters I’d spent years getting to know, and now I felt like I was stuck at a dinner party next to a couple of self-involved jerks, wishing they’d go to couples therapy already and leave the rest of us alone.”
Jewish Book Council: The Most Jewish Thing I Do
“It’s hard to pin down why my writing is the most Jewish thing I do—except that a large part of writing is about exploring a life’s undercurrents, whether they belong to the characters or (consciously or not) the writer. And as far as undercurrents go, my Judaism is practically a riptide.”