PUBLISHED ESSAYS

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)

WRITING RESIDENCIES

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 The Rumpus and ANMLY