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My chapbook [ G A T E S ] is available from Black Lawrence Press.
A Ritual in X Movements is available from Montez Press.
POETRY:
"the great green field" - Pinwheel Journal, June 2019
"washee/was she" - Poetry Magazine, April 2019
"nordkapp" - Bodega Magazine, Issue 80, April 2019
"12 Step Cell" and "Reckoning," (including audio recordings) - HEArt Journal Online, July 2018
"Just Walking" and "Some Words Grow Tails," - Pinsapo Journal, Issue 2: Creature/Verdure, Pinsapo Press, Summer 2018
"come baby," - Origins Journal, Split This Rock issue, April 2018
"Mourning Notes," - Pinsapo Journal, Issue 1: Mourning Tent, Pinsapo Press, Spring 2017
"Should Have Already Mastered Everything" and "Just Before 88-30 51st Avenue" - Newtown Literary, Issue 10, Spring/Summer 2017
"[ ]" and "[ ]" or Two - The Brooklyn Rail, March 2017
"The Toddler in Her Legs" and "Caribou" - Dusie, Issue 19, The Asian Anglophone edition, 2016
"Brink," Winner of the 2016 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award - Fourteen Hills, 22.2, Summer 2016
"Typical Fish" - Bone Bouquet, Vol. 7.1, Spring 2016
Six poems - Elsewhere, Issue 3, Winter 2014/15
"A Secret Life in Misspelled Cities" - dOCUMENTA (13), Notebook #105, 2012
"A Secret Life in Misspelled Cities" - Drunken Boat, Issue 16, Winter 2012
"Grasping," "Wishing," and "In Prayer," - Green Mountains Review, vol. XXIV, No. 1, 2011
ESSAYS:
Book review of Hafez: Translations and Interpetations of the Ghazal - Poetry Project Newsletter, Oct/Nov 2014
"'Jollywood', Afghanistan - Teenage Girls Create and Perform their First Play" - On the Issues Magazine
INTERVIEWS, BLOGS, ETC.:
Interview about [ G A T E S ] with Speaking of Marvels - blog highlighting chapbooks, novellas, and books of assorted lengths
"Consulting Hafez on the Trump Administration" - Steve Zeitlin's Poetry of Everyday Life blog
"Open City: Blogging Urban Change" - interview with Urban Omnibus
ANTHOLOGY & PRESS:
One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature - co-edited with Zohra Saed, University of Arkansas Press
"Afghan American Authors Raise Awareness" - Gulf News
"Afghan American Writing: One Story, Thirty Stories" - PRI’s The World
"Afghan Americans: Three Poets, Two Editors" - Levantine Review
"One Story, Thirty Stories" - South Asian Journalist Association Webcast
BookDragon: Books for the Multi-Culti Reader - Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
2012 Independent Publishers Book Award, Silver Medal for Anthologies