Hi, I’m Rekha. I have a littered work desk, a touch screen computer, likely to give up on me any day, rows of books on shelves waiting to be read, and no time to write, although I try very hard. I used to also have a little dog. I like to write stories. I like to write essays. I like to write poetry, I like to write articles. Sometimes what I write is funny, other times it is not.
I have won awards for my short fiction in three countries – as a teenager in India, in a nationwide competition in Malaysia, and more recently in the USA. I am shortlisted in the Ouen Press Short Story Competition, and am named in Across The Margin’s Best of Fiction 2017.
My list of published stories include prize-winning ‘The Copper Amulet and The Ginger Cat’ (Boston Accent Lit); ‘Ice Eyes of The Turquoise Passage’ (Across The Margin); ‘Orange Mystique’ (Indiana Voice Journal); ‘The Osmosis of The Poisoned Flower’ (Thrice Fiction Magazine); ‘The Phantom Journey’ (Eastern Iowa Review); ‘The Beast of Montmoor’ (Coffin Bell Journal); ‘Diogenes’ Lamp’ (The Ekphrastic Review); ‘Red Hibiscus’ (Intellectual Refuge); ‘Bombay Blue’ (Scarlet Leaf Review); ‘Danse Macabre’ (Foliate Oak Literary Magazine); ‘Snakes and Ladders’ (Third Flatiron); ‘Palm Leaf Clairvoyance’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Broken Window’, ‘Girl On a Mission’ (Friday Flash Fiction).
My route to writing is through an M.A. in English Literature and Criticism earned from Madras University and then an LL.B. (Hons) Law at the University of London, although I have been writing stories ever since I can remember.
I was born in Bombay, grew up in South India, lived in Malaysia, and now spend my time in New York.
I know how to dance energetically, I know how to act, I know how to sing in different languages, and I know how to play chess because they make me happy. That is also why I write. I like being happy.
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