My Gothic Romance (April 2019)

Full-Length Poetry Collection

at Finishing Line Press

on Amazon 

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Summer Forgets to Wear a Petticoat (Jan. 2016)

Chapbook

at Finishing Line Press

on Amazon

 

Tongue-Tied:  A Memoir in Poems (2012)

Chapbook

at Finishing Line Press

on Amazon

 

Fiction

"Death at the Samosa Cafe" in Mystery Magazine (March 2022 Kindle Edition)

"Lock Your Doors" in On the Run

"Digging In" in Desilit*

"The Alphabet Workbook" in Ellery Queen (August 2010 print issue)

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Poetry

"Crustacean on Land" in Uncanny

"Kitchens Through Which I Have Traveled" in Jaggery

"Quiet" in The Five-Two

"Black Widow" in Spirituality & Health

"Handle With Care" in Spirituality & Health

"Two Voices" in Spirituality & Health

"Confetti" in Spirituality & Health

"Recluse" in The Paddock Review

"Ice Pick" in Strange Horizons

"Semi Tropical" in Liminality

"Red Moon" in Moira

"Enough About You" in Moira

"Serpentine" & "Thornfield in The Literary Hatchett

"The Weatherman's Text" in Pedestal Magazine

"Remnants" in Pedestal Magazine

"Muse Noir" in 5-2 Crime Poetry

"Apa's Painting" in The Journal of Pakistan Studies*

"Taj Mahal, America" for the Cobalt Cafe Reading*

"The Bibliophile" in Pedestal Magazine*

"Mugged", "Everything New" and "China-Silk Shoes" in Mascara Literary Review*

"Genuflecting at LAX" in Desilit

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Prose

"The Story of Islamic Poetry" in Bloomsbury Digital Resources

"The Pleasure of Writing Less" in Thought Catalog

"15 Ways Reading Poetry Will Make You More Successful" in Thought Catalog

"The Symbolism of the Number Seven in Islamic Culture and Rituals" in Religion Encyclopedia

"The Politics of Rape in Pakistan:  Victim or Criminal?" in Beyond Borders

 

Reviews, interviews, awards, & and recordings

 

New Literary Project announces the 2022 Jack Hazard Fellowship recipients in press release (March 2022)

"Setting the Mood" featured in They Write by Night hosted by Suzanne Lummis (July 2020)

Review of My Gothic Romance in Pedestal Magazine (December 2019)

Reading "Crime Scene" at Beyond Baroque December 2019 (Video)

Reading "The Wolf" at Catalina Public Library July 2019 (Video)

Reading "Lizards" at Catalina Public Library July 2019 (Video)

Reading "Damsel Ghost" at the Method & Mystery Book Launch (Video)

Review of the poem "Ice Pick" in Quick Sip Reviews

Podcast recording of "Ice Pick, performed by Ciro Faienza at Strange Horizons

Review of Wide Awake in "Los Angeles Review of Books"

Wide Awake reading Skirball (Video slideshow of event)

Audio recording of "Muse Noir"

Author's Night Interview with mom, Chef Farhana, at Calabasas Library (Video)

Beyond Baroque Poetry Reading (Video)*

Aloud reading/recording of Newer Poets Los Angeles*

Blood Jet Writing Hour Interview*

Review of the short story, "The Alphabet Workbook", (published by Ellery Queen) at Nasty. Brutish. Short*

"Genuflecting at LAX" winner of the 2006 Desilit Rapid Writing Contest

 

Poetry in Printed Anthologies 

Method & Mystery:  A Researched Based Guide to Teaching Poetry

Wide Awake:  Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond

The Night Goes on All Night:  Poems Inspired by Noir*

Dragonfly in the Sun:  An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English

Strange Cargo

Blue Arc West:  An Anthology of California Poets

 

 

 

 

* Published as "Mehnaz Turner"