Kanika Ahuja

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• “Delhi Wanes Like a Crescent Moon”
  The Margins: Asian American Writers’ Workshop
  (Forthcoming, October 2022)
• “What Comes from Nothing”
  Quarterly West (Winner of the Inaugural Poetry Prize)
  (March 2021)
• “Mangoes” 
  Quarterly West
  (March 2021)
• “Here Comes the Sun”
  Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
  (November 2020) 
• “The Body Distorts into a Manufacturing Defect”
  Parliament Literary Journal, Issue 1 (Editor’s Winner, Ekphrastic Challenge)
  (November 2020)
• “How Much Sorrow is Too Much Sorrow”
  eShe, Vol 4 Issue 9 (Runner Up, eShe Lockdown Poetry Contest)
  (August 2020)​
• “Poison and Wine // Atropa Belladonna”
  Wine Cellar Press, Issue 1
  (August 2020)
• “If Life Means Life Means Life Means Life // Voluntary Apnea”
  Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 14
  ​(July 2020)
• “The Masala Trail”
  Sidereal Magazine, Issue 5  (Nominated for Best of the Net)
  (April 2020)
• “For the Tourist at Lal Qila, Delhi” and “Driftwood”
  The Medley, Issue 3
  (July 2019)
  

​IN PRINT

• “Under a Magnifying Lens”
  Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Issue 53
  (November 2021)
• “Warfare”
  A Letter A Poem A Home, Airplane Poetry Movement
  (December 2020)
• “In a Quiet House You Can Bury Anything”
  Funicular Magazine, Issue 5
  (October 2020)
• “Confessional // The Opposite of Loneliness”
  Gyroscope Review 
  ​(July 2020)