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sanjana shankar (sana)

sana is a desi teenager with an affinity for cats, coffee and creative writing. she exists solely off of pinterest boards, YA lit and copious amounts of ocean vuong, and runs a lit mag (@filtercoffeemag on twitter) with her best friend.
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India

Selected work (3 publications)

Celestite Poetry
finger paintings / my fate is you Ma, I see you in the mirror every day. The crinkling of your eyes like wrapping paper that we never tore open, only reused. The smile lines across my cheeks, like clothes on a clothesline in the sweltering heat. Everything I am is because of you.
poetry
grief
hope
letters
mother
Bibliopunk Lit
an elegy to our love, and summer afternoonsthe worst thing you ever could’ve told me was the truth. it was warm and sunny; birds chirping, sun smiling, a perfect afternoon. our wiry frames were out of place, like storm clouds in a summer sky. like time-travelers on the titanic.
flash
summer
visual poetry
prose poetry
cnf
The Borderline
Nosebleeds In The Darki wanted to tell you i didn’t hate you. i wanted to tell you that it was the opposite, really, and that was the problem; that last night i was sorry for the blood on your face, and i wished it were mine. and that terrified me.
flash
loss
creative nonfiction
love
relationship
prose poetry