PUBLISHED ESSAYS
Dreamweaving, Michigan Quarterly Review (spring 2025)
A Disappearance, Kenyon Review (summer 2024)
Freedom Trees, Massachusetts Review (spring 2024)
Thinking about na3na3, ALOCASIA (spring 2023) - Pushcart nominated
My mother’s mother, Emerge Anthology (spring 2023)
Fruits of the Desert, Foglifter 8.1 (spring 2023) - notable Best American Essay 2024
Ima, Dardishi zine, volume 3 (fall 2020)
The Land is Holy vol 1-5, self-published (fall 2021- spring 2022)
SELECTED TEACHING and PANELS
ART and SOCIAL JUSTICE MFA seminar, Guest Speaker, University of Pennsylvania, April 2025
ENGLISH 401 seminar, Guest Speaker, University of Maine Farmington, March 2025
DEBUT AUTHOR, Panelist Tin House Winter Residency, February 2025
AWE AND WONDER COURSE, Guest speaker, Brown University, November 2024
UNDOING GENRE, Panelist, Asian American Writers Workshop Page Turner Conference, November 2024
THE FRAGMENTED ESSAY, 6-hour course taught via Roots.Wounds Words, October 2024
WRITING IN CONFLICT, Panelist, Brooklyn Book Festival, September 2024
SUR O NO SUR, facilitator of Reclaiming the Archive, weeklong workshop, Pocoapoco (Oaxaca, MX), July 2024
RESIDENCIES
THE WEDDING CAKE HOUSE - Artist-in-Residence. November 2024
NAWAT Fes - Artist-in-Residence. March-May 2024
KIAR – Kathmandu International Artist Resident at Space A. September 2023
Sewanee Writers Conference - July 2023, Sewanee, TN. Non-fiction contributor (faculty: Jaquira Diaz + Aisha Sabatini-Sloan)
Tin House Winter Workshop ’23 – February 15-20, 2023, virtual, Non-fiction fellow (faculty: Cyrus Dunham)
Roots.Wounds.Words Writer’s Retreat for Storytellers of Color – January 8-14, 2023, virtual, Non-fiction Fellow (faculty: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo)
POCOAPOCO – December 6-19, 2022, self-directed, Oaxaca, Mexico
LAMBDA Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices – August 1-6, 2022, virtual, Non-Fiction Fellow (faculty: Edgar Gomez)
EDUCATION
CATAPULT (virtual) – Essay Generator, year-long writing program under the guidance of best-selling author Kai-Cheng Thom started March 2022
BUILDING YOUR HOME APOTHECARY (Philadelphia, Pa, USA) – Community Herbalist Certification
UNIVERSITY PARIS DIDEROT (Paris, Fr) – MA Anglophone Studies summa cum laude Concentration: Arts and visual culture in the English-speaking world Dissertations, under the supervision of Catherine Marcangeli: “We're here and we're not leaving” Visual construction and defense of the Mission district's identity (First year) Justseeds: acontemporary American printmaking collective
ESAIG ESTIENNE (Paris, Fr) – BFA in APPLIED ARTS, summa cum laude Concentration: Print - Senior Thesis: Feeling music through silence, a 360°music magazine
UNIVERSITY PARIS X – NANTERRE (Paris, Fr) – AA Métiers du Livre cum laude. Concentrations: Publishing, Library Science
Member of the Radius of Arab American Writers, and AWP.
Non-fiction/Essay reader for ANMLY