Recent Publications
The Write Launch, Issue 77
September 2023
The essay explores the issue of gun violence in America’s schools and the bigger question of whether and how we value keeping children safe.
Collateral, Issue 7.2
Spring 2023
In “War Fever,” the onset of the war in Ukraine jars memories of the first Gulf War from the essayist’s vantage point in Saudi Arabia.
Wild Roof Journal, Issue 22
September 2023
Efforts to keep a wounded wild goose alive during a bitterly cold winter provides the backdrop to a musing about the ever-increasing encroachment of human beings on land occupied by wildlife.
“My Father’s Garden”
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“My Father’s Garden,” published in the anthology, Storytellers’ True Stories About Family, Chicago Story Press Anthology, October 2024. https://amzn.to/4dMLnc7
Chicago Story Press Literary Journal
January 28, 2025
“The Prayer Rug” reminisces about the days of motherhood, of raising children in a foreign country, and conveys the pangs of empty nesting once those children are grown.
Collateral, Issue 9.1
November 2024
The creative nonfiction essay narrates the writer’s experiences wearing an abaya and touches on greater implications about women’s rights.
The Write Launch, Issue 60
April 2022
“Facing Mecca” describes an outsider’s observances of a strict Islamic culture while recalling growing up in a deeply faithful Catholic neighborhood.
Additional Publications
(print editions only)
“Birds Over Arabia”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Dunes Review, Issue 25.2
“Shades”
Poem
The 2022 Poetry Marathon Anthology, 2022
“Nonets of Grief”
Poem
The 2021 Poetry Marathon Anthology, 2021
“Tomatoes”
Poem
Still Life, 2020
“My Father’s Prayer”
Creative Nonfiction Essay
Writing From the Inside Out, 2019
“From My Window” and “Reflections on a Winter’s Day”
Poems
Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine, 2014