• 2024 election
  • politics
  • portraits
  • features
  • sports
  • series
    • trump inauguration (2025)
    • more than a margin of victory (2024)
    • a homegoing to remember (2024)
    • labor of love (2022)
  • writing
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Arvin Temkar

  • 2024 election
  • politics
  • portraits
  • features
  • sports
  • series
    • trump inauguration (2025)
    • more than a margin of victory (2024)
    • a homegoing to remember (2024)
    • labor of love (2022)
  • writing
  • about

Journalism

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Here’s What I Saw: A Photographer’s View of the Inauguration

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Homegoing to Remember

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution How One Caregiver Makes Ends Meet in an Unforgiving Industry

  • NBC News How Irish Dance Has Become More Diverse

  • Food & Wine How Atlanta Restaurants are Supporting Black Lives Matter

  • Grist Land of the Freegan, Home of the Brave

  • New York Press Fugettaboutit, Pardner

  • Poets & Writers Asian American Writers Workshop Continues the Conversation

  • Sacramento News and Review A California Writer’s Dispatch From the Islands Hit Hard by Typhoon Haiyan

  • SF Weekly The Church of Nobody in Particular

Essays

  • Zocalo Public Square Arvin, California: Where Everyone Knows My Name

  • Bitter Southerner The Pandemic Makes Me Miss My Cowboy Hat

  • Boston Globe Magazine Why I’m a Dropkick Murphys Fan

  • Hyphen My Mother Didn’t Say I Love You

  • Ozy How (Not) to Woo a Girl

  • Paste Reality Bites, or Why I Binge-Watch

Anthologies

  • Fresh off the Boat: Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America