Sarah Khatry

Biography

Sarah Khatry’s essays have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, n+1, DIAGRAM, and the Cleveland Review of Books, among others. Her novella Ritual won the Sidney Cox Memorial Prize. She is a graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Sarah Khatry

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ESSAYS / Fall 2024

Experiments in Light

By Sarah Khatry ,  Illustration by Jenn Boggs

We don’t exist in a soup of probabilities. We each carve a narrow path through the breadth of the possible—the sum of all choices we’ve made and all that were made for us.

Illustration by Jenn Boggs

An Audience with Wirathu

By Sarah Khatry

“Don’t publish the article with any adjective I did not use. If you want to use an adjective, use ‘Myanmar nationalist.’”

“That’s how you want to be described?”

“Yes.” He chuckles. “Don’t use ‘radical’ or ‘brutal.’ ‘Burmese bin Laden.’”