Born in India and raised in New Jersey, Pallavi Sharma Dixit earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts and has recently published travel articles in the Star Ledger and fiction in the anthology Fiction on a Stick. She highly recommends volunteering in Tanzania, renting an apartment in Florence, attending a cricket match in Melbourne, doing anything in Luang Prabang and buying around-the-world tickets.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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