Flights of
fiction & journalism
No brief? Lean into belief.
I think of these writings as my articles of faith. Since they don’t respond to a client brief, they are a testimony to the things that I’m passionate about – intercultural communications, storytelling as well as language and power. I’m grateful to the various publishers who also believed in them enough to send them out into the world.
Novel
My speculative fiction novel Selling LipService was written as part of my MA in Creative Writing and subsequently won the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award in 2016.
Article about translation
A deep dive into the invisibility of translators and their creative and political choices in rendering fiction into other languages.
Cultural and travel article
Travel writing on the pre-Christian, Ukrainian tradition of painting eggs, based on my experiences in Kyiv while studying Russian.