I have watched the Usawa Literary Review grow issue by issue, the streamlining of submission process, the growing of our editorial team, brainstorming for themes, and raising funds to pay our contributors. While Issue 10 made us proud and grateful, Issue 11 seems all the...

My residence on earthWasn’t all that bad: I don’t mindComing back if need be. -K. Satchidanandan, ‘Instructions to the Undertaker’ Talking with people who see food through the lens of a camera or literature gives appetite a whole new dimension: it becomes political, revolutionary and...

The Cambridge Dictionary describes “appetite” in two distinctively, and yet inclusive ways: NeedThe feeling of wanting or needing something The emphasis on “need” is inescapable to the human eye. It stands pronounced in announcing its arrival, almost visceral in its yearning to intertwine with the...

Dear readers, First things first, we welcome Kinshuk Gupta as the Managing Editor of the Usawa Literary Review. Through his longstanding association with Usawa he has not only brought his extraordinary literary talents and a commitment to an intersectional and inclusive feminist thought, but has...