Publications

Bhat’s writing has been featured in various places. You can find some of his some of his published writings at the following journals:

Fiction:

Best Asian Stories 2021: https://kitaab.org/2021/09/22/pre-order-the-best-asian-short-stories-2021/

Marsh Hawk Review: https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Marsh-Hawk-Press-Review-Spring-2020.pdf?fbclid=IwAR09Oh-3gsxoUC3iRx1OX3Zorad196xW4SqTYeSukWP0fkftKGtGtBzU93o

Kitaab: https://kitaab.org/2020/12/16/short-story-a-desperate-womans-prayer-by-kiran-bhat/

EKL Review: https://eklreview.com/girar/

Bengaluru Review: https://bengalurureview.com/treating-paula-abdul-an-excerpt-from-kiran-bhats-upcoming-novel-girar

The Chakkar: https://www.thechakkar.com/home/girar

fahmidan: https://www.fahmidan.net/basic-11?fbclid=IwAR0MhW-XQYrUMgowZAPtlnIxUsVHt3izpENZVv4r-gEv5b8XxRn7XuochXw

Eco Theo Review: https://www.ecotheo.org/etreview/unpacked-boxes?fbclid=IwAR0gpvHrUhXCM4nG84xepyVu4tzEBA_4wHRclVgRoDfBG2ZiB_YrXW6ZX58

Out of Print: https://www.outofprintmagazine.co.in/kiran-bhat_a-normal-day-matahau-tonga.html?fbclid=IwAR3jqzlljC3bJQ3y0QFpsYUCjYmfG-XiGLrZkRoHCU9uJE6Cf8m9MGZ0gk0

 

Poetry:

Indolent Books What Rough Beasts: https://www.indolentbooks.com/what-rough-beast-poem-for-january-30-2020/

be:longing: https://belongingmag.com/2020/10/04/1999/

Rasa Literary Review: https://rasaliteraryreview20.wixsite.com/website/issue-2?fbclid=IwAR0kPUmGO-HHFbK4loPOfD2HnMvEj-heZ3zd2fnQUfjqTzow58QFcxFZjqA

Pif Magazine: https://www.pifmagazine.com/2021/03/the-president-asks/?fbclid=IwAR0g-kHqpfAcL1pU7FfadO9rdYU875lhdnfTljNdMEPYOw3xtb4zZ9MGGiM

Words and Worlds Magazine: https://www.wordsandworldsmagazine.com/current-issue-aktuelle-ausgabe/poetry-gedichte/kiran-bhat/

Men Matters Journal: https://menmattersonlinejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/08-Kiran-Bhat.pdf

BOMBFIRE: https://bombfirelit.com/2021/07/31/peru-by-kiran-bhat/

Qissa: https://b26963ea-50d4-409b-8790-981f6fb1daf1.filesusr.com/ugd/df3df8_c441fd5c9c92419786d846d196674aca.pdf?index=true

ZIN Daily: https://www.zvonainari.hr/single-post/kiran-bhat-the-earth-is-one

Usawa Literary Review: https://www.usawa.in/issue-5/poetry/country-poems.html?fbclid=IwAR2PPNU5xOrtbG5FTNhmXLdG6qopjwov_XyfHy9Fm9l7aPo9XqWDxEyGGrU

https://www.usawa.in/issue-8/excerpt/Speaking-in-Tongues-By-Kiran-Bhat.html?fbclid=IwAR2PWr4SGcB8e-oHxtQbobLJ0jE62SrxlDBTmgMTbAAGPv5obfg1hwc1Xqw

Outlook Magazine: https://www.outlookindia.com/national/five-poems-on-growing-up-as-a-homosexual-in-southern-usa-news-205067

 

Translations:

SOFTBLOW (Haikus by Antonio Guzman Gomez): http://www.softblow.org/antonioggomez.html?fbclid=IwAR0gCrH5LVe29MKraFMKvabnWP90EkxnISYHnLJRB-FN4ouBPquPcwgZIUU

The Antonym Magazine (Almendranada by Carlos Lopez): https://www.theantonymmag.com/almendranada-carlos-lopez/

Beltway Poetry (poems by Cande Alverez): https://www.beltwaypoetry.com/vokel-unen-tseb-chal-tijmembele-lioyote-tsunel-vilan-candelaria-alvarez-translated-by-kiran-bhat/

The Ilanot Review: http://www.ilanotreview.com/earth/poems-rube-kulej/

Arkana: https://arkanamag.org/2022/12/07/three-poems/?fbclid=IwAR3ApcolZgT_5AJbfG5InQH_QYqMDKqFPA2HsNAkfQ1TXaCF20ccKC7SZZs

 

Non-fiction and literary criticism:

The Caravan: https://caravanmagazine.in/books/kannada-writing-and-global

Outlook India: https://www.outlookindia.com/national/confessions-of-a-polyglot-a-language-for-every-mood-magazine-221836

Drizzle Review: https://readdrizzle.blog/2020/12/27/drizzling-in-tongues-on-translating-myself-by-kiran-bhat/

TCK Town: http://www.tcktown.com/home/interested-in-travelling-while-teaching-online

Cha: https://chajournal.blog/2020/08/24/chinese-spring/

Synchronised Chaos: http://synchchaos.com/kiran-bhat-reviews-behrooz-boochanis-no-friend-but-the-mountain

Mascara Literary Review: http://mascarareview.com/kiran-bhat-reviews-toward-the-end-by-ali-alizadeh

Adroit: https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/03/12/futures-foretold-a-review-of-jee-leong-kohs-connor-and-seal/

Free State Review: https://freestatereview.com/2020/09/24/review-of-elizabeth-powells-atomizer/

The Colorado Review: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-voice-of-sheila-chandra/

Quillopia: https://www.quillopia.com/post/book-review-the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-by-anne-bronte

Eclectica: http://www.eclectica.org/v24n4/bhat.html

Litro Magazine: https://www.litromagazine.com/reviews/book-review-a-superior-spectre/

The Compulsive Reader: http://www.compulsivereader.com/2020/10/08/a-review-of-the-hate-race-by-maxine-beneba-clarke/

Barzakh Magazine: https://www.barzakhmag.net/winter-2022-poetry-1/2022/1/15/kiran-bhat-pdj3g

PRISM International: https://prismmagazine.ca/2021/02/18/growing-curious-a-review-of-farzana-doctors-seven/?fbclid=IwAR3byw5G0h5BMR27hPuTljsbSxJKazlfEtdTNOSDOn0B0rRNTdo8iRPFZyk

Heavy Feather Review:  https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/11/17/drover/

Tupalo Quarterly: https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/reviews/

Ruminate: https://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/georgia-s-new-color-a-review-of-anjali-enjeti-s-essay-collection-southbound?fbclid=IwAR2OhL97-aWMwYs5-JjYghnHT-5xGyzwRmdPOZLVRXAZCvYC3KwLlEt70ic

The Lambda literary Review: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2020/10/blizzard/

Dhaka Review: https://issuu.com/editiondelta/docs/the_dhaka_review?fbclid=IwAR1gAC976mBRG5wHeUU1SjBiU3I5v96rl10bBlbgJynah2BUcx4Ouf2SGo8

The Brooklyn Rail: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/10/books/Devils-Lake

The Rumpus: https://therumpus.net/2020/11/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-sarah-m-sala/

The Florida Review: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/article/identity-and-empathy-in-america-and-assam/

Los Angeles Review: https://losangelesreview.org/dona-juanita-review-kiran-bhat/

Asymptote: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/titaua-peu-pina/

Bangalore Review: https://bangalorereview.com/2022/12/a-beautiful-decay-by-karan-madhok/?fbclid=IwAR1EKXJERy6jeicDjKe_y9Rr9pPEuXCdhtZHUs5mDeY1SZpzvgdSqEIRoSs

Outcast Magazine: https://outcastmag.com/interviews/between-conflict-and-collaboration/?fbclid=IwAR3OapJNIID73VoQq_7ib3bdve6AKXpuXMY5wJazz_nF49VRK3ps0cYiPQQ

Newfound: https://newfound.org/current-issue/reviews-open-your-eyes/

terrain: https://www.terrain.org/2021/interviews/kazim-ali/

Moko: http://mokomagazine.org/wordpress/2021/05/15/bhat-on-mohabir/

PANK: https://pankmagazine.com/2020/11/14/review-the-purple-lotus-by-veena-rao/

Aniko Press: https://www.anikopress.com/book-reviews/recipes-for-the-disaster-by-gareth-sion-jenkins

Newtown Review of Books: https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/jen-craig-panthers-and-the-museum-of-fire-reviewed-by-kiran-bhat/

Rain Taxi Review of Books: https://www.raintaxi.com/pandemic-reflection-patrick-whites-riders-in-the-chariot/

Asian Review of Books: https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/riverrun-by-danton-remoto/

Prairie Schooner: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/812089/pdf

Mekong Review:https://mekongreview.com/afghan-lives/

Hong Kong Review: https://www.hongkongreview.co/post/staring-outwards-in-all-the-directions-a-review-on-michelle-cahill-s-poetry-collection-vishvarupa

The Chakkar: https://www.thechakkar.com/home/themachineislearning

Antithesis: https://www.antithesisjournal.com.au/blog/2021/11/16/review-kintsugi-by-anukrti-upadhyay

The Woman Inc: https://thewomaninc.com/2021/11/11/a-review-on-ruth-padels-daughters-of-the-labyrinth/

The Radical Art Review: https://www.radicalartreview.org/post/review-ayer-hitam-a-black-history-of-singapore

Southern Humanities Review: http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/review-adeeba-shahid-talukder-shahr-e-jaanaan-by-kiran-bhat.html

Cordite Poetry Review: http://cordite.org.au/reviews/bhat-miles/?fbclid=IwAR0nkqrcB9Z6rtCQ1NigO0uM7ZiYS0lNryoaNqj1pDvE2wUOBfIAMrHR9Ww

3AM Magazine: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/future-directions-of-australian-literature-ceridwen-dovey-julie-koh-and-nic-low-in-profile/

The Kenyon Review: https://kenyonreview.org/2020/11/dancing-on-the-back-of-god-a-profile-of-kazim-ali-a-poet-at-his-strongest/

https://kenyonreview.org/2020/11/dancing-on-the-back-of-god-a-profile-of-kazim-ali-a-poet-at-his-strongest/

 

Interviews, profile pieces, and news articles that have covered Kiran Bhat:

PRISM: 

Circling the World: An Interview with Kiran Bhat

BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/kiran-bhat-interviewed/?fbclid=IwAR3CexOcbVTwzSErrgwJj7WUJ1zVKBuWmWXQhiiNFJjxuZ6SznSmkEbZgGI

Kitaab: https://kitaab.org/2021/03/16/i-like-the-idea-of-channeling-the-sorts-of-stories-that-humans-like-to-come-back-to-kiran-bhat-author-girar/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0SzJPHJgYGh5gOPlKrMXZ51DGoQJ8nTF6gfBv10un9odUUWCpeNg51ZkU

New Indian Express: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2022/dec/31/indian-literature-page-turners-2022-2533449.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZYodfweuep9F5jt9-q4F6wDUYofSwuxAawLthM7Ii93iPx1nCHT346dE

The Wire: https://m.thewire.in/article/books/a-poetic-call-for-peace?fbclid=IwAR3GsBBfthAW1p_UJbduyLoomHusNLENlmWgFXFnWc3JT5rxNXvJ4T0FPig

The Daily Eye: https://thedailyeye.info/thought-box/how-will-i-know-peace/5f65b05a373f79f0?fbclid=IwAR3CexOcbVTwzSErrgwJj7WUJ1zVKBuWmWXQhiiNFJjxuZ6SznSmkEbZgGI

Khabar: https://www.khabar.com/magazine/talk-time/mapping-the-world-with-words

Purple Pencil Project: https://www.purplepencilproject.com/book-review-kiran-bhat-we-of-the-forsaken-world/?fbclid=IwAR2CH6XDArtm5gPFvB3Slfve1HhdiPWd8cwTjB6J6NF8Ywr9z8VwAPNcLew

Outlook: https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/book-review-speaking-in-tongues-poems-in-spanish-mandarin-and-turkish-weekender_story-236727?fbclid=IwAR16KQXQgKx2X3N54JtvOFyIWrW9ne7_SnBLCeJjrfqmZXSequU96cDFJCo

The Brockton Writers Series: https://brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com/2021/07/08/bws-14-07-21-kiran-bhat/?fbclid=IwAR3jMJWwaFoMB3JzqpJKNc7wiDzFHDkJRifmWpKBCjYBD_mcKAifThxgeKg

Till The Last Word: https://tillthelastword.com/interview-with-kiran-bhat-indian-american-traveller-polyglot-and-author/

Quillopia: https://www.quillopia.com/post/an-interview-with-indian-american-aspiring-novelist-kiran-bhat

Heavy Feather Review: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/04/23/deptula/

Waxwing: http://waxwingmag.org/items/issue22/53_Kiran-Bhat-In-Conversation-with-Vinita-Agrawal.php

/temz/ review: https://www.thetemzreview.com/bhat-roberts.html

MAYDAY Magazine: https://maydaymagazine.com/kiran-bhat-in-conversation-with-aruni-kashyap/

Medium: https://medium.com/@authorslargeandsmall/the-globe-as-fictional-space-kiran-bhats-story-cycle-we-of-the-forsaken-world-1d9671ba71b5http://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/interview-kiran-bhat/?fbclid=IwAR3n0MAiVHneE8ch-yFEbUWNQ06-3_0hbulRGIiT04gA3tXK8jsVHqNhRpw

Asymptote: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/04/13/traitor-to-tradition-resister-to-remorse-a-conversation-with-kiran-bhat/?fbclid=IwAR1B2RkqPCPeL49FjlzJAxmiu2MPn23rfqZnhpTWvgGqHymq6aO3G-cFPG0#more-31810

RGNN: https://archives.rgnn.org/2018/03/17/meet-global-citizen-writer-kiran-bhat

WBOC TV: http://www.wboc.com/story/41418978/sprawling-new-novel-we-of-the-forsaken-world-tackles-themes-of-global-connection

A Blue Million Books: https://abluemillionbooks.blogspot.com/2020/03/featured-author-kiran-bhat.html

Raquelle Varadi: https://rvaradi.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/author-interview-kiran-bhat/

Podcast: Travelling and Writing with Kiran Bhat

A Fevers of the Mind Quick-9 Interview with Kiran Bhat

The Dark Phantom Review: https://thedarkphantom.wordpress.com/tag/kiran-bhat/

Tarshi.net: http://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/interview-kiran-bhat/

Interview – Kiran Bhat

 

Boots, Shoes, and Fashion: https://bootsshoesandfashion.com/an-interview-with-author-kiran-bhat/

Bookhounds: https://www.bookhounds.net/2020/01/30/interview-we-of-the-forsaken-world-by-kiran-bhat/

I’m Shelf-ish: http://www.imshelfish.com/2020/03/interview-with-kiran-bhat-author-of-we.html?m=1

The Writer’s Life: https://thewriterslife.blogspot.com/2020/01/we-of-forsaken-world-author-q-with.html

Nudhiani: https://nudihani.wordpress.com/2016/09/27/kannada-from-a-global-perspective-an-interview-with-polyglot-kiran-bhat/

The News Now: http://www.thenewsnow.co.in/newsdet.aspx?q=101527

Third Culture Files: https://www.thirdculturecommunications.com/post/interview-with-author-kiran-bhat

“Kiran Bhat, The Globetrotter” profile: https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/kiran-bhat-the-globetrotter-40fa81f2c0a4

NRI Pulse profile piece: https://www.nripulse.com/i-try-to-compress-our-globe-into-a-single-narrative-fictional-space-author-kiran-bhat/

Edinburo Now profile piece: http://www.edinboronow.com/article/world-traveling-author-makes-stop-at-edinboro

Ballarat Writers Group blog post: https://ballaratwriters.com/blog/kiran-bhats-advice-for-writers/

Samyukta Poetry Profile Piece: http://www.samyuktapoetry.com/38-kiran-bhat

Writings on the Wall 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaT5L1PQhAk&fbclid=IwAR0few1B9UcGvTc0CQ4ndaoQJf6yMDJhu8_kXvRwqh5qZb8Go1W3_iP4cLg

 

Reviews by others on Speaking in Tongues:

Outlook India: https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/book-review-speaking-in-tongues-poems-in-spanish-mandarin-and-turkish-weekender_story-236727

 

Reviews by others on we, of the forsaken world…: 

Kirkus Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kiran-bhat/we-of-the-forsaken-world/

The Magic Pen: https://www.themagicpen.com/kiran-bhat-we-of-the-forsaken-world/

Pacific Book Review: https://www.pacificbookreview.com/we-of-the-forsaken-world

Purple Pencil Project: https://www.purplepencilproject.com/book-review-kiran-bhat-we-of-the-forsaken-world/

NRI Pulse: https://www.nripulse.com/we-of-the-forsaken-world-connected-stories-set-across-the-globe/

Idle Ink: https://idleink.org/2021/03/06/review-we-of-the-forsaken-world-by-kiran-bhat/

Booklife: https://booklife.com/project/we-of-the-forsaken-world-44419?fbclid=IwAR1Y6U8lUMrkQCBgFmR5EhRrPX5aOg_RQGr5SpvtIZ6geSxPLpnPcOnYVCc

Midwest Book Review: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/feb_20.htm

Dactyl Review: https://dactylreview.com/2019/12/08/we-the-forsaken-world-by-kiran-bhat/

Modern Diplomacy: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/05/13/on-the-page-the-novelist-poet-questions-in-kiran-bhats-seminal-work-we-of-the-forsaken-world/

On the page the novelist-poet questions in Kiran Bhat’s seminal work: We of the Forsaken World