Avni Sejpal (she/her, avnims@sas.upenn.edu) is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the literary cultures and aesthetics of Afro-Asian decolonisation and Marxist internationalism, postcolonial theory and Asian diaspora studies, and gender and sexuality. She previously worked as an editor in independent and scholarly publishing as well as digital media. Her work has appeared in Boston Review and elsewhere.