Illustrator: Alex Charner
alexcharner.com / @alexcharner
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.
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.
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