Publications

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Publications

Poetry, flash fiction, and essays exploring memory, migration, and what it means to hold multiple worlds at once.

My poems, stories, and essays explore family, inheritance, migration, faith, and memory.

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POETRY · AGNI · FORTHCOMING

Forthcoming in AGNI

A poem forthcoming in AGNI.

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POETRY · SWWIM EVERY DAY

boys:

Published in SWWIM Every Day

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CREATIVE NONFICTION · ANOMALY

What I Will Tell My Daughter

Published in Anomaly Literary Journal

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iO
POETRY · iO · 2020

Daily Coviding

Published in iO: A Journal of New American Poetry

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POETRY · RISING PHOENIX REVIEW

How to Pray at the Mosque

Published in Rising Phoenix Review

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POETRY · FERAL

The stories she was never told

Published in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art

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POETRY · PANOPLY

His Words Are Plump

Published in Panoply, a literary zine

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Faithfully Feminist
ESSAY · ANTHOLOGY

Resilience

Essay in Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay

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Taboos & Transgressions
FICTION · ANTHOLOGY

Taboos & Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings

Anthology · Kim Addonizio, Joyce Carol Oates, Pam Houston & others

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Show Us Your Papers
POETRY · ANTHOLOGY

Show Us Your Papers

Poetry anthology

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Essays & Articles

Selected essays published in HuffPost.

FORTHCOMING

Works in Progress

POETRY · MANUSCRIPT

What My Mouth Inherited

Two-time Brittingham & Felix Pollak Poetry Prize Semifinalist (as a new vocabulary)

A poetry manuscript exploring inheritance, language, family, faith, and the silences carried across generations.

STORY COLLECTION · MANUSCRIPT

The Mountain Lions

Stories about Pakistani Pashtun American families, memory, migration, and the unexpected ways we inherit one another.

NOVEL IN PROGRESS

The Poppy Flower

A literary novel following three Pashtun Muslim women as they navigate grief, family, and the stories that survive migration.