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Rishi Nath

Rishi Nath is a mathematician and writer. Originally from Boston, he lives in and writes about Jamaica Queens. Rishi is a former Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellow.

By Rishi Nath:
Exit West: An Interview with Ishmael Reed
Fact/Fiction
The Physics of Storytelling
Jah Guide Me Through
Always Foreign, Always Brown
The Talented Master Khan
Everything Is a Surface
Vish and Dev: Undocumented in Richmond Hill
Anatomy Of A Fuel Shortage: The Hess Station on Liberty Avenue in Queens
Land of The Beavers: A Conversation With Queens Historian Carl Ballenas
Scenes From Sandy: South Queens Recovers, Slowly
Queens Stand Up: The Essential Reading Guide on Hip-Hop’s Forgotten Borough
Ghetto Qu’ran: South Jamaica Through The Life Of 50 Cent
Bebi Rejendra, Student
The Neighborhood You Know Nothing About
Five Boroughs, Seven Killings

Recent Articles

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    Poetry
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    There was no difference where I went.

    A Black and Asian Feminist Reproductive Justice Syllabus
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    Nearly 30 years after its birth, reproductive justice remains a fundamental feminist framework addressing issues of bodily autonomy, equity, and liberation.

    All That We Can’t Leave Behind: An Interview with Daphne Palasi Andreades
    Interviews
    By Vina Orden

    “Our identities are made up of many, often conflicting parts, but are of us, nonetheless.”

    I Swam in a Cold Lake and Watched My Body Convulse on Shore
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    I secretly know I’d be a great flight attendant.

    AAWW at 30: Closing the Notebook
    Essays
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    In which we awaken and make new meaning from our archive

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    The first reading I ever gave was at Basement Workshop

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    Interviews
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    Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, and Kyle Dacuyan talk about the funky, raw arts spaces we need

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    Poetry
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    And is this tenderness? Professional palms kneading my bare, / jittery skin?

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    Essays
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    Ten Phases to Night
    Fiction
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    You know what I am trying to do for you, Night, she says. I am trying to make life easier.

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    On AAWW as a space of solace and connection

    Surrounded by Books
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    By Jeannie Wong

    Remembering the AAWW offices in the East Village and Koreatown

    A Subterranean Home
    Essays
    By Peter Ong

    Remembering the Workshop’s basement office in the late nineties

    AAWW’s Space Through the Years
    Essays
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    Former and current Workshop directors and workers reflect on 30 years of AAWW’s spaces

    Institutional Memory Foam
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    해방 / Liberation
    Poetry
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