Poetry
- "Relive". North American Review [Forthcoming]
- "Before Sleep". Storm Cellar [Forthcoming]
- "Hatshepsut" and "Bites", Tampa Review [Forthcoming]
- "Fire". Cherry Tree #8
- "The Girl". Vallum: Contemporary Poetry. Issue 18.1 (Invisibility).
- "Life In San Francisco" and "The Heart of Longing". American Journal of Poetry v10. January 1st, 2021.
- "New Yorkers". Soundings East.
Essays
- "If they want to be published, literary writers can't be honest about money". LitHub
- "Is There Any Real World For Our Kids To Return To?" North American Review Online
- "Are 'The Classics' Good For You?" The Los Angeles Review of Books. February 8th, 2022
- "Professors, Don't Delude Yourself: Your Graduate Students Aren't Aiming for Non-Academic Jobs". Chronicle of Higher Education. November 29
- "The Myth of the Classically-Educated Elite". The Los Angeles Review of Books. November 15.
- "Honoring And Remembering Trans Lives". Sexual + Being.
Book Reviews
- "The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon's An Event, Perhaps". The Rumpus. June 16, 2021
- "A Trans Woman Reacts to Andrea Long Chu's manifesto, Females". The Bind. January 8th, 2021.
- "The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf". Strange Horizons. January 6, 2014
- "Dark Eden by Chris Beckett". Strange Horizons. March 18, 2013
- "The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters". January 14, 2013
- "Shoggoths in Bloom by Elizabeth Bear". December 3, 2012
Dungeons and Dragons Articles
- "Myths of the Shadow', DRAGON Magazine, November 2004
- “Gloves of the Common Man”, d20Weekly, January 2003
Miscellaneous
- Rahul Kanakia's Potion Quest - a mod for Baldur's Gate 2 that was later incorporated into SimDing0's Quest Pack.
- Desai, Sonalde and Rahul Kanakia. Profiles of a Diasporic Community. Seminar: The Diaspora. 2004