I recently moved to the US from India and my pieces each reflect different emotions centred around my move. Moving halfway across the globe is stressful enough and my first piece 'Hope - A Conquest' talks about how I wake up everyday to find the smallest of things inspiring me to be hopeful when things seem bleak and out of control.

1) This artwork reflects my struggles with family dynamics. It explains the cycle that ensues with a sibling.

2) This artwork reflects the feeling of eagerly wanting to make the person you love happy out of love.

As a teenage girl, I am always thinking of ways to avoid creepy old men (not to generalize but many others and myself have had to deal with them numerous times).

Most of my poetry is very personal and mostly fueled by my emotions at a given moment. This particular poem however is not inspired by personal experience but from a movie I watched called Promising Young Woman.

My piece represents how I perceive a lot of our beauty standards, especially for women. I do believe that the beauty standards are slowly changing, and I really appreciate that.

As a writer of creative nonfiction, my poetry not only draws inspiration from my personal experiences, but it recreates them. Through my poetry, I seek deeper truths about my own life. I also hope to extend my life to readers to contemplate life from new perspectives and to seek understanding over our common experiences.

I wrote this poem in the middle of the night, in the midst of a mental breakdown, and I wasn’t expecting it to be of substance. But I revisited it in the morning and spent some time revising it.

This here is a short screenplay titled "Walking On The Wrong Side". The script is the telling of a teenage girl with Asperger's named Jenna. She goes through her day as if she were an artificial being in her own small imagination.

My short story focuses on the presence of generational trauma in families. It is something I have seen impact many people, and I wanted to write about how it might look for a young girl and her mother.

I reflected on my different identities and how different points of view would affect the people around me. From there I wrote my heart out and came up with how I wanted to do it. For these poems I did the different languages I know English, Spanish and I'm learning French.

"Waiting" is a personal account of my own perspective on an attempt to live a normal life, seemingly waiting for my own struggles with Bipolar Disorder to emerge.

My piece focuses on grief, and my personal struggle and acceptance of my grandfather's passing. It was the very first piece I wrote this school year, and one I am definitely proud of. As it is one of my favorite pieces I've written, I really wanted to submit it this year.

In 2018, I participated in the Black Joy Poetry Workshop with Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe, and our work was published in Black Joy: an Anthology of Black Boy Poems, in 2019.

My piece reflects the faults of our troubled society and how they have taken a toll on the World, something barely anyone seems to take note of.

Paranoid is a short story about being betrayed by your mind and fighting constantly. The story is really a metaphor for mental health and how it can deteriorate. The monsters are intrusive thoughts that always stick with you. With this story, I really wanted to explore how people deal with these thoughts, their "monsters".

I was (and am) a huge procrastinator for essays. I remember once when I submitted an essay exactly at 11:59, and I felt that the panic and adrenaline I had then was completely indescribable.

For the longest time, I always had the mantra that I was not an "art person", I wasn't a particularly talented painter and my sight reading musical notes needed a little bit of work. I, of course, never viewed writing as a form of art or expression but rather as a homework assignment.But, an English class essay changed that.

This ghazal could be interpreted as a believer's exploration of their religion or a reflection of a queer relationship, both impeded on by societal norms. It's an expression of my queerness, South Asian heritage, and Muslim background.

I learned to play the guitar in preparation for this performance. I had tried before but could never keep going with it.

My performance video is on Saint Saens's Morceau de Concert for Horn. The piece initially begins in F minor with a theme, then 2 variations after it.