Non-Fiction

Aria Aber on Finding Transcendence in Berlin’s Underground Scene — Electric Literature (January 2025)

Three Literary Translators Discuss Their Paths to Writing Their Debut Novels — Electric Literature (December 2024)

Navid Sinaki’s Debut Is the Love Story He Might Have Lived if He Never Left Iran — Electric Literature (August 2024)

3 Debut Novelists Reveal How Their First Books Came Together — Electric Literature (July 2024)

Ayşegül Savaş Casts a Lens on Life’s Small Joys in “The Anthropologists” — Electric Literature (July 2024)

Clare Sestanovich Writes from the Unanswered, the Uncertain, and the Unknown — Electric Literature (June 2024)

Every Age is a Tender Age for an Artist — Electric Literature (October 2023)

7 Craft Books to Help You Become a Better Writer — Electric Literature (October 2023)

Jonathan Lethem Returns to Dean Street — Electric Literature (October 2023)

8 Campus Novels Set in Grad School — Electric Literature (August 2023)

Turning Small Rebellions Into a Large Literary Revolution — Electric Literature (June 2023)

8 Novels Spotlighting Middle Eastern American Women — Electric Literature (April 2023)

The Hidden Gems of High School — LA Times (April 2017)

Fiction

“Tourist Attractions” — The Hopkins Review (Winter 2024)

“How Adam Met Eve Outside of a Bar in Queens” — Threepenny Review (Summer 2024)

“A Missed Subscription” — Cultbytes (October 2022)

Distinctions

Tin House Workshop Scholar (Summer 2023)

PERIPLUS Collective Fellow: Lit Hub Announcement (2023-2024)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Fellow-in-Residence (December 2024)

Shortlisted for the First Pages Prize — judged by Edwidge Danticat. (Summer 2024)

Disquiet Literary Program Participant in Lisbon, Portugal. (Summer 2024)

Longlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize (2023)

Finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar’s Emerging Novelist Award (2023)

Alpine Fellowship Prize, Tuscany. Honorable Mention. (2024)