Apoorva Bradshaw-Mittal (they/she) is a gender/queer author from northern India. Their short stories and essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology, and elsewhere. Their work has been supported by Tin House, Lambda Literary Emerging Writer’s Retreat for LGBTQ+ Writers, and Roots Wounds Words Retreat for Storytellers of Color. You can check their work out at apoorvamittal.com or on Twitter and Instagram @MittalWrites.
Sakshi can lay me over her workbench, unstitch my skin, stuff me with fur, and then sew me. She can weave her magic into me. Make me not be myself anymore.