10 Questions
10 Questions for Mia Ayumi Malhotra
- By Abby MacGregor
The morning’s inexplicable sadness. A vague salty-sweetness, permeating the hours.
I sit at the breakfast table with my daughter, eating squares of mochi.
The outer shell, risen like the carapace of a crab. Crisp skin and soft, gooey interior.
I once read that ambivalence means both very far and very close.
—from "Ode to Mochi", from Winter 2018 (Vol. 59, Issue 4)
Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.
As a graduate student at the University of Washington, I remember writing, for the first time, a poem in which I felt free. Ironically, this happened in response to an imitation exercise that my advisor had assigned in workshop, something along the lines of “revise a poem in the style...
