Jyotsna SreenivasanJyotsna Sreenivasan

Jyotsna Sreenivasan’s most recent book is These Americans, a collection of short stories and a novella about Indian Americans. She received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council for 2022, and was selected as a Fiction Fellow for the 2021 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies (including Copper Nickel and Sixfold).  She was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. She was born and raised in Ohio. Her parents are immigrants from India. For information about Jyotsna as well as other writers who are children of immigrants, please see www.SecondGenStories.com.
When Your Characters Speak a Language Other Than English
Image: an artwork comprised of many rows of three-dimensional characters from numerous languages mounted next to one another in random order on a backing board.
No matter what language our characters are speaking, writers should strive to express dialogue and inner thoughts in a naturalistic ...
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The Value of Percolation
Image: cartoon illustrating halves of the brain. Left brain is represented by a man struggling with a jumble of jigsaw puzzle pieces, and right brain is represented by a woman assembling puzzle pieces in an orderly fashion.
Setting an idea or draft aside for “percolation” allows the brain’s subconscious to arrive at insights while we’re busy with ...
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