Hi everyone!
I'm looking for short stories written by POC authors and it could be about anything as long as it is a POC author. Some themes, however, that I would be interested in reading about is the theme of belonging, identity and immigrant parents. Also, I would love to read short stories by Native American writers, specifically from the Anishinaabe culture, but any other indigenous group is welcome as well.
The reason for this is because I'm working on a short story for my project at University and wish to read more around the themes I want to write about.
Thank you very much!
by Hoon_4
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The Thing About Indians, by Sherman Alexie
[Interpreter of Maladies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5439.Interpreter_of_Maladies) is good, and those themes are pretty central to the stories.
Here are some of my favourite short story collections featuring POC authors. Unfortunately, I haven’t read much short fiction from indigenous writers:
* New Suns 2 edited by Nisi Shawl. All great stories.
* So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan
* Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
* Of Tales and Enigmas by Minsoo Kang
* Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
* Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
Individual stories I think cover the themes you are interested in. I’m Asian American, and that definitely influences the stories that I seek out and that resonate most with me.
* [The Last Cheng Beng Gift](https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-cheng-beng-gift/) by Jaymee Goh
* [The Paper Menagerie](https://escapepod.org/2012/05/17/ep345-the-paper-menagerie/) by Ken Liu
* [Mother Tongues](https://escapepod.org/2018/07/12/escape-pod-636-mother-tongues/) by S. Qiouyi Lu
* [The Many Taste Grooves of the Chang Family](https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-87c-the-many-taste-grooves-of-the-chang-family-by-allison-king/) by Allison King
* [Termination Stories of the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist](https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_07_22/) by Isabel J. Kim. This isn’t about immigrant parents, it’s about Orientalism in fiction and what it does to perceptions of oneself and one’s culture.
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva