Publications
Non-Fiction
Load-Shedding, The Adroit Journal, April 2021 (online)
Here, Anomaly, October 2020
Toronto's South Asian Canteens are a Diasporic Cultural Phenomenon, Goya Journal, June 2019
Migrating From Rotis to Sandwiches (and back), Looseleaf Magazine, May 2018
Confessions of a Brown Yoga Teacher, The Ethnic Aisle, May 2018
Excerpt: From the Mouth of the River, Loam Magazine, June 2015
From the Mouth of the River, Stethoscope Press (chapbook in print), May 2015
Resisting for the River, Earth Island Journal, October 2014
Fiction
Mouth, Fist, Catapult, March 2021 (online)
Fish Stories, The Kenyon Review, Jan 2021 (print and online)
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Winner of 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest
Rajni, Prairie Schooner, Fall 2020 (print)
Lifeboat, The Cincinnati Review, January 2020
Exile , The Malahat Review Issue 206 (print)
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Winner of 2019 Open Season Award in Fiction
Factory, Ricepaper Magazine, November 2018
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Anthologized in Belief: An Anthology of Asian Diaspora Writers (Asian Canadian Writers Workshop, forthcoming)
Gathered Family, SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2018
Aya, Tya, The Ilanot Review, July 2018
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Anthologized in The 2019 Best Small Fictions Anthology
Interviews
The KR Conversations: Janika Oza in Kenyon Review
"A Constellation of Questions": An Interview with Guest Reader Janika Oza in SmokeLong Quarterly
Histories of Exile: Open Season Award Interview with The Malahat Review
Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Janika Oza in SmokeLong Quarterly
Poetry
Poem, Into The Void Issue 11, (print/online), January 2019
Hollowing in Three Parts, Hobart, January 2019
Fellowships and Recognitions
Artist Residency, The Millay Colony for the Arts, 2021
Ontario Arts Council, Literary Creation Projects: Works for Publication Grant, 2020
Tin House Winter Novel Workshop, 2020
Mentee, Diaspora Dialogues GTA Long Form Mentorship, 2020.
Writer in Residence, Firefly Creative Writing, 2020.
One Story Summer Writer's Conference, 2019
Tin House Summer Novel Workshop, 2019
2019 New Millenium Award for Fiction, Finalist.
2019 New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction, Finalist.
2019 CBC Short Story Prize, Longlist.
"Aya, Tya" - Nominated & selected for The Best Small Fictions Anthology 2019
Winner, Malahat Review 2019 Open Season Award in Fiction, "Exile."
Kundiman & Winter Tangerine Workshop, 2018
Voices of Our Nation (VONA) Workshop, 2018
GrubStreet, Workshop Scholarship Recipient, 2016