Salonee Verma

Salonee Verma is a Jharkhandi-American writer, student, and the co-founder of antinarrative (@antinarrativeZ), a collaborative zine. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gasher Press, Shenandoah, Backslash Lit, VIBE, and more. He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net, as well as the American Voices Award.

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Batesian Mimicry

Salonee Verma  | 
Issue 73.1 Fall 2024

I learned to shape my lips from men who peaked a decade before I came into this world, all of us screaming. The King of Cool taught me English himself. He told me to mambo myself into high Holy Cowness. Ol’ Blue Eyes sang me to sleep every night. Harry Belafonte would wake me up. […]