 The opening poem, "The Day we went to the Sea", won the 2005 British Council-supported All India Poetry Competition; she was also a finalist in the Outlook-Picador Non-Fiction Competition.Her short story "Lady Cassandra, Spartacus and the dancing man" was published in its entirety in the journal "The Drawbridge" in 2007.Her poetry collection, "Everything Begins Elsewhere", was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in 2012 and by Copper Canyon Press in the US in 2013.