t. jahan

writer/poet/creator

Writing In Progress.

• children's books (middle grade)

  • Rookie & The Djinn (revising manuscript)

  • Lila & The Woods of Deramar (working title, finalizing manuscript; seeking agent)

• novel

• collection of short stories

• poems

Published Pieces.

• TJ's Dream (aka It's-Gonna-Happen) Life List | believing in that Which Does Not Yet Exist: Visions of Guaranteed Income | December 2024

• Allz a Miracle | Common Unity: An Anthology | June 2023

• Any Day Now | Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings | June 2022

• to a place where the baby blooms | Exposition Review | April 2022

• Weathering, the nearest heaven, & green murky ponds where we learned to float | Newtown Literary | December 2021

• Namaz | Sampad Arts' My City My Home | November 2021

• River Girl, Outer World | Gagosian Quarterly | September 2021

• Rookie & The Djinn Ch. 1 & part of Ch 2 (excerpt) | Guernica | August 2021

• Rookie & The Djinn Ch. 1 (excerpt) | PEN America's DREAMing Out Loud: Voices of Migrant Writers, Volume 3| July 2021

• The Reluctant Informant | The Journal | January 2021

• the buddha plays cards | The Margins | August 2020

• my dream—I feel (co-written with Sara), the whole having completely different / human experiences from my siblings (co-written with Nadia Habib), & more | PEN America's DREAMing Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers, Volume 2 | June 2020

• realizing. & That big line. (both co-written with A. Mazumdar) | The Desi Condition | October 2019

Other Awesome Writing-related Stuffs.

• Reading: DREAMing Out Loud at 2025 PEN World Voices Festival (30:11 - 31:19) | May 2025

• Panel: Brooklyn Book Festival - The Writer as Migrant | October 2022

• Interview with PEN America | August 2022

• Interview with Newtown Literary | February 2022

• Reading: DREAMing Out Loud at 2021 PEN World Voices Festival (6:20 - 7:24) | August 2021

• Reading: Race & Immigration: An Evening of Memoir (1:11:56 - 1:21:03) at Lewis Latimer House Museum | May 2021

• Reading: Bodies, Borders, Boroughs, and Belonging at Brooklyn College's Women Center | May 2015