Publications
You begin where it always begins: with the toilet paper.
Pidgeonholes magazine (September 2021)
Essay in Catapult’s First Print Anthology
A Map is Only One Story
In the first published anthology of writing from Catapult magazine, twenty writers – including me! – share stories of migration, family, the search for home and belonging, and read more…
Once
War, Literature & the Arts Journal
JUNE 2019
Once, a woman sat down to eat her lunch. Read more…
Calculus of Nightmares and Nieces
Longleaf Review
APRIL 2019
A bright blue car with extra-large, missing window panes, careens late at night. In the backseat, I’m exposed to everybody on the street. Read more…
What Do I Gain From Citizenship—and What Do I Lose?
Catapult Magazine
NOVEMBER 2018
I fished out my green card from the same maroon case and handed it to the white immigration officer at a Customs and Border Protection counter. Read more…
Pushcart Nomination
Jellyfish Review
OCTOBER 2018
The wonderful Jellyfish Review nominated Not A Bar Story for a 2018 Pushcart Prize! Read more…
Semi-Finalist
Midway Journal
OCTOBER 2018
A flash essay of mine was a finalist in Midway Journal’s -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest, judged by the great Lesley Nneka Arimah.
Not A Bar Story
Jellyfish Review
MARCH 2018
What she wanted was to write a story. Not the story. Not a life-changing story. Not a cautionary tale. She wanted to write a good story. A story that people would remember, or maybe forget. Read more…
We Need Diverse Books, But We Also Need Diverse Reviewers
Electric Lit
AUGUST 2017
A sofa, a circle of light, a novel, maybe a beverage near at hand read more…
Where We Learn to Bang Our Heads Against A Brick Wall
SmokeLong Quarterly
March 2016
One Thursday, a goat walked into the classroom. The sixteen of us squeaked.
Strengthening Memory, Justice, and Human Rights in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere
The Amnesty Commission of Brazil
NOVEMBER 2015
MFA Year 2, Week 1
Imagining Tunacorn and Skunkinex in ‘Immigrant Fiction’ Guernica
SEPTEMBER 2015
Immigrant fiction is usually meant to describe fiction about “the immigration experience.” Read more…
Beyond Solidarity: A Woman of Color in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Hyphen
SEPTEMBER 2015
At my first protest march from Union Square… Read more…
Old City
Day One, Amazon.com’s literary journal
JULY, 2015
I walked out of the masjid, scanning the crowds for a glimpse of my father. Read more…
The Power of PEN: The Award to Charlie Hebdo Isn’t About Freedom of Expression
Hyphen
MAY 2015
On April 27, Salman Rushdie tweeted… Read more…
No Whitewash: Interview with John Keene, Author, CounterNarratives
The Offing
MAY 2015
John Keene is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions) Read more…
Sites of Conscience: Past to Present, Memory to Action – Chapter in Museum of Ideas
MuseumsEtc
SEPTEMBER 2012
From Memory to Action
A Toolkit for Memorialization in Post-
Conflict Societies
International Coalition of Sites Conscience
FEBRUARY 2012