publications

Poems

• "Matrilineage [Umbilicus]"  | Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day

• "Fatal Music" and "Theophanies"  |   The Kenyon Review

• Pantoum with Ecclesiastes   |   The Sewanee Review

• "My Faith Gets Grime under Its Nails" | Poetry

• "Ism" | Guernica

• "The Origin of Species" | The Yale Review

• "Apotheosis" | The American Poetry Review; reprinted in Poetry Daily

• "Still Life with Empire" and "Epithalamion..." | Poetry Northwest

• "O Gabriel" | The Rumpus

• "Mother of Nations" | Pleiades  [Print]

• "Litany with Hair" | The Bennington Review  [Print]

• "February Augury" and "Parable of Flies" | The Adroit Journal

• "Daughter Triptych" | Quarterly West

• nominated for Best New Poets 2022

• "Elegy..." and "Photo Op..." | Electric Literature

• "Nazar" | EX / POST

• "First Encounter with Jinni" | Poet Lore 

• "Litany of al-Bayt" | Mizna  [Print]

• "Annunciation" and "Nude" | The Boiler​​

• "Annunciation" nominated for Pushcart 2021​

• "Navel to Knee" | Narrative Magazine

• "On Seeing" | Slant'd  [Print]

• "Theophanies" | Chestnut Review

• "Last Night, Noor Jahan Visited" | DEAR Poetry Journal

• "Shirk" and "The Reward of Goodness..." | Faultline Journal [Print]

• "Tumulus" and "Mundane History..." | Verse of April

• "Matrilineage [Recovered]" | The Seventh Wave

• "Spectacle" | Frontier Poetry 

• "Aurat," "Partition Ghazal," and "Self Portrait..."  | Memorious Journal

• "Self Portrait..." nominated for Best New Poets 2021​

• "Ghazal Ghazal" and "Ghazal on the Day of" | Palette Poetry

• "Motherhood 1999" | Wildness

• "Interview..." and "Story of the Cranes" | Tinderbox Poetry Journal 

• "Story of the Cranes" nominated for Best of the Net 2020

• "Dua for [ ]" and "The Guest" | Waxwing Literary Journal

• "There are Versions to Everything" | Up the Staircase Quarterly

Essays
&
reviews

The Pen, the Throat, the Ear: On Ghazals   |   Poetry Magazine

What Sparks Poetry: On "Matrilineage [Umbilicus]"   |   Poetry Daily

Stanzas: Marie Howe    |    The Sewanee Review

7 Poetry Collections that Transform the Personal into Portals   |   Electric Literature

interviews

BOMB Magazine

Poetry Northwest

The Rumpus (also here)

Chicago Review of Books

Up the Staircase Quarterly

Hayden's Ferry Review

Canthius

Frontier Poetry

Poets & Writers, MFA Issue (Print)

fiction

• "Innocent" | ​Meridian

•      finalist for the Meridians Short Prose Prize ​