Tell us about yourself and what inspired you to start writing.
I think the inclination was always there, beginning with a love for stationery and the corollary desire to write. But I never thought it would be poetry because I grew up seeing stories sell, not poems and hence did not think they were wanted. As a physician writer, poetry has become an unlikely way of life now, but I am hopeful for a story worth telling, which I still believe is the mark of learned writing. For now, I write for myself, to get better at it, being faithful to a craft to explore.
Describe your writing process? Is there anything unique about it?
My writing involves cutting off the unnecessary bits, till the core is prominent. A time gap between writing and editing is a requirement for proper execution. I like to have structure and using it as a tool, I write haikus too, which have been published in Heron's Nest, Under the Basho, Poetry Pea, Haikuniverse, Plum Tree Tavern, among others.
Have you published any books or do you have a desire to do so?
I do desire to publish a chapbook, but it is hard to find publishers for poetry and micro fiction, but I am trying in that direction. I don't want to self publish, because I believe that it is not ready if traditional publishers do not see good in the work.
Do you have any favorite poets or authors?
Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickenson are poets I have admired for so long, and Frost too. In literature, I like the Bronte sisters. I have most reread, The Bell Jar.
Do you have a favorite book of poetry or poems?
As I read, I find more favorites. In haikus I recently read Roberta Beary's which goes, "caught in the spider web revisionist history".
Sometimes I am surprised by how good writing can elevate everything, even the reader. I felt so for Eliot's Prufrock, Plath's Fig Tree and in McCrae's In Flanders Fields.
What are you reading now?
Just transitioned from Kafka to Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. It was perfect.
What do you like to do when you’re not writing? Full-time job, pets, hobbies?
I like to read for pleasure, whether it is articles or novels. Creativity is an attractive skill and I crave to read things that score well in that department. I am a physician but my writing doesn't involve my reality, even though that means I can't construct familiar worlds in my writing.
Are you working on a current project?Yes I am, actually. I am grouping my poems as per theme, so that they can be sent to the right print journals. Over seventy poems of mine have been published in various journals such as BODY, Brussels Review and Roanoke Review. I'd rather share my work than keep it aside. When my poems get selected, I know they are worthy of compilation, into future chapbook projects. I have no other metric to measure progress because I haven't taken any writing courses, yet.
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