Short Stories
- “Tiresias.” Fit For the Gods, Vintage, edited by S. Zainab Williams & Jenn Northington (August 2023).
- “The Voyeurs.” Kink: Stories, Simon & Schuster, edited by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell. 2021.
- “Wing.” The Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2018 issue.
- “The Peaceable Night.” PANK Magazine, Issue 12.2. 2017.
- Translated into Italian in Pidgin Edizioni by Raffaella Maisto (2017).
- Translated into German in Lichtungen (2019). An excerpt in German can be heard on Radio Helsinki (Dec 2019).
- “Orchard Street Tenement.” Bird’s Thumb, Volume 3, Issue 3. 2016. (
Hear me read this piece.) - “Two Hikes.” Eleven Eleven, Issue 21. 2016.
- “Everything Blooms.” Mizna, Volume 17.1. 2016.
- Reprinted with an introduction by Sonia Ali in Electric Lit (2017).
- “Samira Halawi.” Clackamas Literary Review, Volume XX. 2016.
- “White Birds.” The Normal School, Volume 9, Issue 1. 2016.
- “Like Fig Trees in Winter.” The Saturday Evening Post, New Fiction Friday series. 2016. Received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train.
- “We Will Tell Our Children.” Gulf Stream Literary Magazine, Issue 14. 2015. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. ( Hear me read this piece.)
- “Mujaddara and Myrrh.” Mizna, Volume 16, Issue 1. 2015.
Flash
- “The Physicist’s Lover Dies of a Stroke.” Waxwing, Issue 16. 2018.
- “The Boy Has Always Lived Here.” Mizna, Volume 19.1. 2018.
- “Stones Falling.” Third Point Press, Issue 3. 2015. Nominated for Best of the Net.
- “Enough.” Sukoon, Volume 3, Issue 1. Jan 2015.
Poetry
- “timelapse with uprooted trees and disembodied animals” & “after christchurch.” We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent (eds. Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck), Persea Books (August 2023).
- “Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty).” The Fairy Tale Review, Vol 17, The Gold Issue. 2021.
- “Trans heaven is a house full of flowers & no word for shame.” Isuleddas, Cherimus. May 2020.
- Translated into Italian for Isuleddas: “Il paradiso trans è una casa piena di fiori, dove la parola vergogna non esiste.”
- “litany for the morning after.” Les Carnets de Camargo. March 2020.
- “love poem for the newly out.” Cordite Poetry Review 94: BAYT (poets of Arab Heritage, edited by Zeina Hashem Beck). Dec 2019.
- “Syria” (excerpted from The Map of Salt and Stars, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1 May 2018). Panorama Journal, Issue 5. Aug 2018.
- “drone footage of Homs, twenty sixteen.” Kweli Journal, Spring 2018 issue. Jun 2018.