The Day After

In September 2025, the Washington Writers Publishing House published ‘The Day After’, an essay I’ve been working in their print anthology in celebration of their 50th Anniversary. I hope you enjoy it - available in print wherever you buy books.

Here is a review by Amanda Holmes Duffy in the Independent: “Which brings me to Leeya Mehta’s “The Day After: Searching for Language for Another Lost Generation.” This stand-out piece is a meditation on several challenges we’ve confronted in the past and which we face again today. Her compassion and wisdom steady me, as does her plea for a softening of rhetoric.”