Introduction / Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary --
Why we cross the border in El Paso / Victoria Blanco --
A map of lost things / Jamila Osman --
My Indian passport is a bitch / Deepti Kapoor --
This hell is not mine / Kenechi Uzor --
Arab past, American present / Lauren Alwan --
How to write about your ancestral village / Steph Wong Ken --
Carefree white girls, careful brown girls / Cinelle Barnes --
Return to partition / Nur Nasreen Ibrahim --
Undocumented lovers in America / Krystal A. Sital --
Say it with noodles / Shing Yin Khor --
My grandmother's patois and other keys to survival / Sharine Taylor --
The dress / Soraya Membreno --
What Miyazaki's heroines taught me / Nina Li Coomes --
How to stop saying sorry when things aren't your fault / Kamna Muddagouni --
The wailing / Nadia Owusu --
Writing letters to Mao / Jennifer S. Cheng --
Dead-guy shirts and motel kids / Niina Pollari --
Mourning my birthplace / Natalia Sylvester --
Should I apply for citizenship? / Bix Gabriel --
How to write Iranian America; or, the last essay / Porochista Khakpour.
