GRWM— Into It featuring Sheba Karim
GRWM— Into It featuring Sheba Karim
Issue #9
GRWM (Get Ready With Me) is a new (and dare I say sexy!) segment where I'll be interviewing writers retro-style-- cute little questionnaires about what writers are wearing, listening to, snacking on, etc. We want to know what they're into and what gives them the ick. We want writing prompts based on their books. We want to know their favorite song, the worst writing advice they've ever received, and you better believe we want to know their brunch order.
It's time to stop asking writers the same boring questions and start getting REAL.
Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including Bank Street and Kirkus, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, a NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls, winner of the South Asia Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Alchemy: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories 2 (Tranquebar Press, 2012). Her fiction and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in 580 Split, Asia Literary Review, India Today, Literary Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Off Assignment, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, South Asian Review, The Rumpus, Time Out Delhi and various anthologies in the United States and India. Her script, Blighted, was a finalist at the 2022 Austin Film Festival, and is being filmed Fall 2024. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University.
Favorite Bookstore: I have to shout-out my local bookstore, Parnassus, which is, as a friend of mine once put it, “enchantment in a strip mall.” I also love Collected Works in Santa Fe, NM.
Favorite recent read: I’m going to name two: The Menopause Brain by Lisa Mosconi, PhD and All Fours by Miranda July. Very different books but with some common themes.
Best Fall Purchase or Favorite Fall Trend: A stroller for our cat. He’s always trying to run outside so now we take him for walks and he loves it.
Worst Writing Advice: I was on a panel once where a published author advised the writers in the audience not to worry about getting published.
Best Writing Advice: Stop writing for the day at a point where you know where you want to go next.
Favorite Poem: Favorite is a tough call, but I’ve been reading and loving a chapbook by Sahar Romani called The Opening.
Brunch Order: savory: Veggie omelet (with green chile if I’m in New Mexico), sweet: Challah French toast.
