Stories & Creative Works

Poems, short stories, and lyrical fragments from the quieter edges of my voice.

This is where I write without a brief.

A space for poetry, story, and fragments that don’t explain themselves. Some of this work explores memory, grief, and emotion. Other pieces come from moments between roles, when I am not a strategist, not a marketer, not a professional voice, but just a person paying close attention, floating in my imagination or soaking in the little details of life and reflecting on them with a touch of lyricism.

Featured Work

Complete Collections:

• The Tide Returns: (manuscript in progress)
  • A literary-political drama about grief, politics, and the quiet violence of legacy. More details here.

Currently seeking literary representation.

• The Rules of Ruin: A Manual for Heartbreak and Survival (completed, unpublished)
  • My first poetry collection on love, loss, and transformation. Scroll for select excerpts.

Currently seeking literary representation.

• Of Milk and Rot: A Record of What We Inherit (in progress)
  • My second poetry collection about the brutal contradictions of female relationships— exploring mothers, daughters and friendships in South Asian female communities. How love is weaponized, silence is taught, and how identity is shaped by erasure, inheritance, and performance. It's about the sweetness of how things look on the surface, and what rots quietly beneath.

Short Stories:

• Threshold - Memories of K2-18b: A Short Science Fiction Story
  • In the year 2307, Astronaut Aidan R. Sorell crash lands on the vast and deep oceans of K2-18b. His mission logs reveal an unexpected discovery previously unknown to human kind. Read it here.
• The Whiteout, A Short Science Fiction Story (in progress)
  • The crew of Sanae-IV is on a research mission deep in the Antarctic, far away from civilization. As the long Antarctic winter begins, something goes terrifyingly wrong.
• Assimilation, a short story (Currently in concept)
• The Spiral of Her Name, a short science fiction story (in progress)
• Tethered, a short dark romance story (in progress)

The Rules of Ruin

At its core, The Rules of Ruin is a study in collapse—of love and identity. If love is the explosion, Ruin is the aftermath, the ache, the silence, the sorting through the wreckage.

These poems don't just bleed, they dissect. Each line slices through illusion, cataloging grief, longing, and betrayal with surgical precision. The rules are never fixed, only learned in retrospect. Like a mirror cracked just enough to still reflect, The Rules of Ruin invites you to look—closer, harder—at the beauty in the breaking and the transformation in the aftermath.

Of Milk and Rot

My second poetry collection explores South Asian femininity and it's quiet violence. It dares the reader to look past the soft, sanitized and often sainted surface and explore the brutal contradictions of motherhood, sisterhood and close friendships within the elite South Asian American female community. Of Milk and Rot confronts what happens beneath the performance of conditioned femininity, formed under extreme patriarchal pressure, and calls out what festers beneath.

Authorship is not Autobiography

I don’t write autobiography. I write systems through story. Some of the details are from my myth and memory. But none of this is about me..not exactly. It’s about what we inherit. What we perform. What we bury. And what finally grows through rebirth.

I’ve lived close enough to the systems I write about, close enough to feel them crush, rupture, erase. That doesn’t make this memoir. It makes it architecture.

Don’t read for confession.

Read for beauty, rebirth and sharp storytelling.

About the Author

Kashfia Naz is a Bangladeshi-American writer, strategist, and cultural critic whose work navigates the intersections of power, inheritance, and transformation.

A former advertising executive who led strategy for global brands, she left the corporate world to pursue authorship and critical analysis full-time. Her writing blends literary insight with systems thinking, often mapping the unspoken codes of gender, class, and South Asian femininity.

She is the author of The Rules of Ruin (2024), a poetry collection on grief, exile, and memory, and is currently completing her second collection, Of Milk and Rot: A Record of What We Inherit — a brutal and tender excavation of sisterhood, softness, and performative power.

Kashfia is also the founder of Signal & Strategy, a forthcoming AI literacy and enablement consultancy, and the voice behind A Millennial Learns AI, a real-time notebook from the frontier of technological transformation.

Her work has been described as cinematic, subversive, and deeply human — a signal from the edge of collapse, written in clarity and fire.