EDUCATION: Ph.D. (Biochemistry)

Professional Positions: Held research and teaching positions in academia.

Publications: Sixty manuscripts in prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals.

 

FICTION WRITING:

Workshops:

Iowa Summer Writers’ Workshop (2012). Instructor: ZZ Packer.

Wildacres Writers' Workshop (Summer 2012). Instructor: Carrie Brown

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Fiction:

Adanna: Bewildered Belle (Print)

Bare Back Rev: Lord and Lady

Bare Back Rev: Carnal Cravings

Bare Back Rev: Spice of Life

Bare Back Rev: Memories

Belle Reve: Mama's Will

Bewildering Stories: The Ambitious Girl

Bewildering Stories: A Naive Casanova

Bewlidering Stories: Cash Cow

Bewildering Stories: Blind Love

Big Stupid Review: Hastini

Blazevox: Pandora’s Box

Blue Fifth Review: Car Puja

Carrier Pigeon: Premonition (Print)

Canyon Voices: Naive Novelist

Chicago Literati: Free At Last

Danse Macabre: The Scion

Crab Orchard Rev: Sad Scion

Dead Mule School of Southern Lit: GPS Lady

Dead Mule School of Southern Lit: Dream Man

EastLit: A Doctor in The Family

Enhance Magazine: The Pious girl

Eskimo Pie Rev: Concubine

Fiction On The Web: Love Marriage

Fiction On The Web: Truth

Foliate Oak Rev.: Affair

FORTH: A Two-Dog Lady

Ginosko: A Country Girl

Lunch Ticket: The Blessed Bangle

Meat For Tea: Betrayal (Print)

Nazar: Rachel

New Mexico Rev: Path to Nirvana

Penmen Rev: Femme Fatale

Route7Review: Eternal Love

Sarasvati: Beer Belly (Print)

Saturday Evening Post: Cardinal directions

Serving House J. : Mother-in-Law

Southern Cross Review: The Engagement

Southern Cross Review: Mystic Stones

Southlit: Primogeniture

StoryShack: The Kama Sutra Aficionado

StoryShack: The Muhurtham

Umbrella Factory: Tortured Souls

Waccama: A Nerd and a Prude

Wilderness House Lit. Rev: The Reluctant Harlot

Wilderness House Lit. Rev: Death be not Proud

Wilderness House Lt Rev: Most Memorable Man

Yellow Mama: My Salad Days

 

Non Fiction:

 

Clockwise Cat: Dream of Undivided India

Clockwise Cat: George Will's Words of Folly

Gravel: Will I Ever Be An American

International Policy Digest: Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi (Republished in Southern Cross Rev.)

International Policy Digest: Narendra Modi's Challenge

International Policy Digest: Narendra Modi's Priorities

International Policy Digest: George Will's Words of Folly (Republished in Clockwise Cat)

nternational Policy Digest: Modi, The Messiah

International Policy Digest: Where Have All the Leaders Gone

International Policy Digest: Martrys, Murderers, and Monuments

International Policy Digest: We Deserve Democracy, Not Autocracy

StepAway Magazine: Bangalore Streets

The Missing Slate: Culture Clash

The Prague Revue: Fall of The Congress Party

The Prague Revue: Carrot Halwa

The Prague Revue: What's in a Name

The Prague Revue: Musings of an Emerging Writer

The Prague Revue: College Degree

The Prague Revue: Rebel With a Cause

Writer's Tribe Review: Sleep Saga

News & Observer: My Brush With North Carolina Voter ID Law

South 85: The Last Battle