Bibliography
Publications
Poetry, flash fiction, and essays exploring memory, migration, and what it means to hold multiple worlds at once.
In journals
iō Literary Journal
Daily Coviding
Poetry · Tales from Six Feet Apart (anthology) · 2021
In anthologies
Essay
Faithfully Feminist
“Resilience,” in Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay
Fiction
Taboos & Transgressions
Stories of Wrongdoings · Anthology · Kim Addonizio, Joyce Carol Oates, Pam Houston & others
Essays & articles
Selected essays published in HuffPost.
In progress
Works in progress
Poetry manuscript
What My Mouth Inherited
Twice a semifinalist (2023 and 2024) for the University of Wisconsin Press’s Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes (as a new vocabulary) and a 2024 semifinalist for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry
A poetry manuscript exploring inheritance, language, family, faith, and the silences carried across generations.
Story collection
The Mountain Lions
Stories about Pakistani Pashtun American families, memory, migration, and the unexpected ways we inherit one another.
Novel
A Poppy Flower
A literary novel following three Pashtun Muslim women as they navigate grief, family, and the stories that survive migration.
