Happy to announce my short story “Mutability,” a mashup of Blodeuedd and Caliph Stork, has been accepted by the anthology Upon a Once Time. My classmate at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Taryn Haas, is also included!
Check out the Kickstarter to preorder.
my writing
“The Plague-House” will be reprinted!
My short story “The Plague-House,” which originally appeared in Anathema: Spec from the Margins, will be reprinted and podcast by Podcastle!
Poem acceptance
My poem “Owl Prowl” had been accepted by the journal Reckoning!
STRANGER ON THE HOME FRONT has a new release date
Due to the impact of COVID19 on publishing, Stranger on the Home Front has been pushed back to Spring 2021 instead of being released September this year. You can preorder it here for any kid in your life who is interested in historical fiction, WWI, or the history of the Indian-American community.
STRANGER ON THE HOME FRONT has a cover!
Here’s the cover for my World War I middle grade novel, Stranger on the Home Front, featuring a young Punjabi-American girl whose father is caught up in the Hindu-German Conspiracy trial.
Image description: a young girl holding a newspaper that says WAR!, walking in front of a classroom chalkboard with an American flag over it.
Book description: It’s 1916, and Europe is at war. Yet Margaret Singh, living an entire ocean away in California, is unaffected. Then the United States enters the war against Germany. Suddenly the entire country is up in arms against those who seem “un-American” or speak against the country’s ally, Great Britain. When Margaret’s father is arrested for his ties to the Ghadar Party, a group of Indian immigrants seeking to win India’s independence from Great Britain, Margaret’s own allegiances are called into question. But she was born in America and America itself fought to be freed from British rule. So what does it even mean to be American?
Rhysling Award nomination
My poem “The City That Changed Hands,” originally published in Strange Horizons, has been nominated for the Rhysling Award (Science Fiction Poetry Association)!
Announcing my middle grade novel, STRANGER ON THE HOME FRONT
STRANGER ON THE HOME FRONT, a middle grade novel dealing with the impact of the Hindu-German Conspiracy Trial and the nationalism of WWI-era America, will appear from Jolly Fish Press on September 1, 2020. I love my half-Punjabi protagonist, Margaret, who slowly learns to stand up for her beliefs, and her German-American best friend Bettina who’s dealing with her own issues that Margaret can’t see. And of course, it was a pleasure to delve into a less famous aspect of the Indian independence cause.
You can preorder from Amazon here. Here’s the summary:
It’s 1916, and Europe is at war. Yet Margaret Singh, living an entire ocean away in California, is unaffected. Then the United States enters the war against Germany. Suddenly the entire country is up in arms against those who seem “un-American” or speak against the country’s ally, Great Britain. When Margaret’s father is arrested for his ties to the Ghadar Party, a group of Indian immigrants seeking to win India’s independence from Great Britain, Margaret’s own allegiances are called into question. But she was born in America and America itself fought to be freed from British rule. So what does it even mean to be American?
New poem up at Anathema!
Go read “Things To Do When You Believe You Have Been Cursed: A Checklist” here!
Maya Chhabra 
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