.Writers.on.Writing.

Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.

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.W.o.W. #24

Nikita Rimal Sharma

What is a book you wish someone would write?

If only my mother wrote a book. I would love to read about the pain and struggles that my mother has experienced, as a third person. I feel like I would understand her so much more.

How did you first publish your writing and what was it?

It was an essay on “Environmental Pollution in Kathmandu” when I was in grade 5. I submitted it to my local newspaper The Kathmandu Post, and it got published in the weekly kid’s section. I was elated. 

What does your inner writing voice tell you?

You can heal.

Nikita was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal and moved to the U.S. about seven years ago. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland. You can learn more about her in Yellow Arrow Journal’s Vol. V, No. 3 issue (Re)Formation, with “Be You, Beautiful,” and find her in our A Reformative (Re)Formation Reading of (Re)Formation from November 2020.