Press

 Reviews of my books

• “Olive Witch,” (book review) by Raian Abedin, Daily Star, Thurs. Aug. 17, 2023
• “8 Memoirs” (book review, Olive Witch) by Sorayya Khan, Electric Lit, Jan. 4, 2023
• “6 Contemporary Books” (book review, OW) by Dee Das, Book Riot, September 24, 2020
• “9 Books Where WOC Tell Their Own Stories about Mental Health,” (book review, OW) by Sejal Shah, Electric Literature, July 29, 2020
• “Abeer Hoque’s Olive Witch,” (book review) by Sezín Koehler, Huff Post, January 6, 2018
• “Red Dust, Sleeping Pills, Green Ground,” (book review) by Tulika, On Art and Aesthetics, September 20, 2017
• “Olive Witch,” (book review), by Geeta Kothari, Kenyon Review, June 7, 2017
• “A former Pittsburgh resident’s tale of finding herself,” (book review, OW), Pittsburgh Post Gazette, March 12, 2017
• “7 new memoirs by women around the world,” (book review, OW) Time Magazine, March 8, 2017
• “An Outsider on a Quest for Belonging,” (book review, OW) by Terry Hong, Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 8, 2017
• “The Places that Inhabit Us,” (book review, OW) by Chaitali Sen, Brooklyn Magazine, Feb. 8, 2017
• BOOKLIST REVIEW for Olive Witch (book review), Feb. 1, 2017
• KIRKUS REVIEW for Olive Witch (book review), Dec. 1, 2016
• “An Ode to Women Who Struggle to Fit In,” (book review, OW) by Dessidre, July 1, 2016
• “The Lives of Women,” (book review, OW) by Nilanjana S Roy, Business Standard, April 11, 2016
• “The immigrant book I’d been waiting for,” (book review, OW) by Kushalrani Gulab, The Asian Age, March 20, 2016
• “Emerging from Darkness,” (book review, OW) by Sumana Mukherjee, LiveMint, March 4, 2016
• “Olive Witch,” (book review) by Sara Wainscott, Your Impossible Voice, February 2016
• “3 New Genre-Bending Reads,” (book review, L&L) by Shahnaz Siganporia, Vogue India, April 5, 2016
• “8 Literary Talents at the Jaipur Lit Fest,” GQ India, January 29, 2016
• “Tangled Up in Blue,” (book review, L&L) by Hurmat Majid, The Express Tribune, November 22, 2015
• “Love in every human way” (book review, L&L) by Kushalrani Gulab, The Deccan Chronicle, October 29, 2016
• “How Deep Is Your Love,” (book review, L&L) by Amrita Dutta, The Indian Express, September 19, 2015
• “The Lovers and the Leavers,” (book review, L&L) by Jaya Bhattacharji Rose, August 14, 2015

Interviews

• “Lewis Latimer Memoir Workshop on Race and Immigration” (interview) by Carlotta Mohamed in QNS, May 23, 2022
• “The Writers of “Golden” Tell Their Tales” (interview) by Mehrul Bari, Daily Star, April 22, 2021
• “Q&A on Artists Residencies” (blog post) Newtown Literary, September 2020
• “Stories of Failure,” (video interview) Inked Studios, June 2020
• “Writers and their Workspaces,” (blog post) Newtown Literary, April 12, 2018
• “Shelf Life,” (video interview) by Arlan Hess of City Books Pittsburgh, April 2, 2018
• “My Accent Changes with the Landscape,” (interview) by Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz, READ at Durham University, Feb. 23, 2018
• “The Page 99 Test,” (blog post) Campaign for the American Reader, October 16, 2017
• “Tell the Truth Sooner,” (interview) by Piyali Bhattacharya, The Margins, AAWW, August 10, 2017
• “50 Questions Interview,” (interview) Some Serious Business, April 17, 2017
• “An Interview with Olive Witch Author Abeer Hoque,” (interview) Eleventh Stack, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, March 20, 2017
• “Visible #6: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque,” (interview) by Deesha Philyaw, TheRumpus.net, February 23, 2017
• “An Interview with Abeer Hoque,” (interview) by Chi Chi Nmorka, Defining Cultures, Feb. 14, 2017
• “Who is the Olive Witch,” (interview) by Lydia Paar, NOMAD International, Feb. 12, 2017
• “Reading with…Abeer Y. Hoque,” (interview), Shelf Awareness, February 7, 2017
• “5 Minute Interview with Abeer Hoque,” (interview) Wasafiri, Jan. 31, 2017
• “Mirror Mirror on the Wall,” (author profile) by Shahnaz Siganporia, Vogue India, May 2016
• “Inspire me: Abeer Y Hoque,” (interview) on Nupu Press, January 2016, reprinted in Scroll.in, March 13, 2016
• “The Lounge Chair Interview: 10 Questions with Abeer Hoque,” (interview) by Kitaab, September 4, 2016
• “A Writer’s Building Blocks,” (interview) by Tishani Doshi, The Hindu Thread, June 2016
• “3 short interviews about writing L&L, the JLF experience, and secret powers,” (interview), Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, Jan. 24, 2016
• “Wandering Poetess,” (interview, L&L) by Janice Rodrigues, The Navhind Times Buzz, December 13, 2015
• “In conversation with Abeer Hoque,” (interview) Goa Arts and Literary Festival, December 12, 2015
• “Make/Work with Abeer Hoque,” (podcast interview) by Scott Pinkmountain, The Rumpus, October 15, 2015
• “Interview with Abeer Hoque,” (podcast interview, L&L) by Eric LeMay, New Books Network, August 28, 2015
• “New Books at Hay: Abeer Hoque and Javed Jahangir,” (interview, L&L) The Dhaka Tribune, November 2, 2014
• “Interview: Abeer Hoque,” (interview) by Hannah McBride, Nowhere Magazine, September 2014

Panels and Other Press

• “Why Every Writer Should Be Applying to…” (review of teaching) by Brendan Spiegel, Narratively, Sept. 11, 2024
• “Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival 2024” (review of literary festival), Daily Star, April 18, 2024
• “An afternoon with Abeer Hoque and Nupu Press” (review of literary event) by Raian Abedin, Daily Star, July 23, 2023
• “Latimer Workshop and Reading on Race and Immigration” (press release) QNS, May 30, 2023
• “On Modesty” in Alien Nation (anthology review) Shelf Awareness, October 15, 2021
• “Bangladeshi Authors on Identity and Otherness,” (literary panel), Dhaka Tribune, Jan. 11, 2020
• “The Feminine Gaze,” (panel review) by Divya Hemnani, CatchNews, February 5, 2018
• “Women Writing Memoirs,” (panel review) by Samreen Tungekar, Hindustan Times, February 5, 2018
• “Yellow Door, Dhaka at Dusk, Taking All Kinds,” (3 poetry videos, OW) Terrain.org, August 3, 2017
• “Maximum City,” (OW excerpt) Penn Gazette, July/August 2017
• “My parents said they would disown me if I married my first love,” (OW excerpt) in Good Housekeeping, Feb. 17, 2017
• “This Year’s Gaysi Zine Is All About Desire,” (review, Hourglasses) The Daily Pao, February 7, 2017
• “Love Letter, I have stolen everything, Garden,” (3 poetry videos, L&L) Scroll.in, October 9, 2016
• “Ushering a new era of poetry in motion,” (poetry videos review, L&L) by Nida Sayed, Times of India, December 14, 2016
• “First Novels,” (panel session video), Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 25, 2016
• “Sex and the Revolution,” (panel session video), Zee Jaipur Literary Festival, India, January 25, 2016
• The Lovers and the Leavers is listed on “Amazon Rising Stars Winter 2015“
• “Intersections of Literature and Art,” (panel session video) Goa Arts and Literary Festival, December 12, 201
• “Beyond Native Informants,” (panel session video) Goa Arts and Literary Festival, December 11, 2015
• “Book Launch of The Lovers and the Leavers in Bangladesh,” (press release, L&L) The Dhaka Tribune, November 15, 2014

Honours and Prizes

19. Recipient of a 2020 New Works Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA)
18. Storyteller at the 2019 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland
17. Recipient of a 2018 New Works Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA)
16. Recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artists’ Fellowship
15. Recipient of a 2014 residency at Instituto Sacatar, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (declined)
14. Recipient of a 2012 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
13. Winner of the 2012 Desi Writers Lounge Short Story Contest
12. Finalist and published in the 2012 Aesthetica Creative Works Competition
11. Winner of the 2011 Wasafiri New Writing Prize in Life Writing
10. Highly Commended Winner in the 2009 and the 2011 Commonwealth Short Story Competitions
9. 2011 writing resident at the Edward F. Albee Foundation
8. 2011 writing resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts
7. Winner of a 2011 NEA fellowship for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
6. Winner of a 2009 Saltonstall Summer Fellowship
5. Winner of a 2007 Fulbright Scholarship
4. Honourable Mention in 2006 Abroad Writers Short Story Competition
3. Winner of the San Francisco Foundation’s 2005 Tanenbaum Award in Creative Nonfiction
2. Winner of a merit scholarship for the 2002 Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia
1. Winner of a 2 year merit scholarship for the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco