vika mujumdar
vikamujumdar.bsky.social
vika mujumdar
@vikamujumdar.bsky.social
mfa @ umass amherst ‘26 | editor @ liminal transit review | recent work in Cleveland Review of Books, the Brooklyn Rail, Girls on Tops READ ME
dream juniper lineup ❤️ applications open November 1!!!!
We’re delighted to announce our guest writers for the 2026 Juniper Summer Writing Institute, which will take place June 21-27, 2026. To learn more about our guest writers and the 2026 Institute, please check out the website linked in our bio. Applications open November 1, 2025!
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Very excited to have a speculative flash piece out with Small Wonders today!
Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".
Oleander - Small Wonders
Mama scooped her eyes out with an heirloom ornamental teaspoon, and let them roll to the floor.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"The ability to read oil is central in how it might allow us to read anew larger social structures that make the United States and its hegemonic global influences."

@vikamujumdar.bsky.social on Jung Yun's "O Beautiful" and petrofiction today.

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American Oil Encounter: On Jung Yun’s “O Beautiful” - Cleveland Review of Books
Here the sense of abundance comes sharply into focus—there is something indulgent here, something obscene, almost, in its abundance. Gas, a greatly desired commodity, becomes waste, situating oil as a...
clereviewofbooks.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Meet the National Book Critics Circle 2025-2026 Emerging Critics Fellows! www.bookcritics.org/emerging-cri...
August 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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"Ernaux and Marie venture into a new form of documentation, of record keeping, of making real the ephemeral."
@vikamujumdar.bsky.social reviews THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, translated by Alison Strayer (@sevenstories.bsky.social): www.full-stop.net/2025/03/19/r....
March 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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@vikamujumdar.bsky.social has contributed a wonderful lyric essay on Jennifer Chang's latest #poetry collection, "An Authentic Life." (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social 2024) Now live on @anmlymag.bsky.social Poetic Conversations column:
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Poetic Conversations: What is within reach of language? On Jennifer Chang’s “An Authentic Life”
A few winters ago, my first break of grad school, I read a book every day. I stopped keeping a list of books I wanted to read. Instead, I…
medium.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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New at PB, @VikaMujumdar.bsky.social explores poet Don Mee Choi’s KOR-US trilogy of poetry books, which examine selfhood, coming-of-age, and, later, her compulsion to catalogue.
Without the Poet, There Is Only War
“The victims of History are permanently exiled from home, within and without. The practitioners or memory are also: we live as foreigners, as translators.”
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December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM