Book
In the Middle of Many Mountains [BUY]
Press 53, 2013
Fiction
“Best Practices” [FULL TEXT]
Baltimore Review, summer 2026
“A Brief History of Iran” [FULL TEXT]
StoryQuarterly, issue 57, 2025
“Silver Hands” [FULL TEXT]
Ploughshares, vol. 49, no. 4, 2023-2024, pp. 76-87
“There Is No Act Five Monologue” [FULL TEXT]
Nimrod, vol. 67, no. 1, Fall/winter 2023, pp. 112-26
“Pilgrim” [FULL TEXT]
Cincinnati Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021, pp. 129-41
“Red Flags” [FULL TEXT]
Notre Dame Review, no. 49, 2020, pp. 153-63
“I miss her. I miss her. I miss you” [FULL TEXT]
Briar Cliff Review, vol. 32, 2020, pp. 48-52
“My Mother’s Hands in My Mouth” [FULL TEXT]
SDR, vol. 54, 2019, pp. 11-17
“A Quiet Garden”
Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 32, 2019, pp. 38-49
“Girl, Upside-down” [FULL TEXT]
The Bitter Oleander, vol. 24 no. 2, 2018, pp. 115-19
“Hospice” [FULL TEXT]
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 4, vol. 9, March 2018
“Seeds” [FULL TEXT]
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 4, vol. 9, March 2018
“Girl” [FULL TEXT]
Passages North, no. 34, 2013, p. 10
“Foundling”
Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Press 53, 2012
“Stories My Mother Told Me” [FULL TEXT]
Ruminate Magazine, no. 23, 2012,pp. 13-21
“In Perfect English”
Carolina Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 2, 2011, pp. 7-10
“Heart of a Locust” [FULL TEXT]
Los Angeles Review, no. 9, 2011, pp. 194-210
“In the Middle of Many Mountains” [FULL TEXT]
Meridian, no. 23, 2009, pp. 123-34
“What Will Happen” [FULL TEXT]
Jabberwock Review, vol.26, no. 2, 2005, pp. 11-23
“New Again”
The South Carolina Review, vol. 35, no. 2, 2003, pp. 149-56
Nonfiction
“Fourteen” [FULL TEXT]
Agni Online, 10 July 2024
“Three Women” [FULL TEXT]
Bennington Review, issue 12, 2023, pp. 293-308
“Bahji” [FULL TEXT]
Crazyhorse, no. 102, 2022, pp. 103-13
“Proof Sheet” [FULL TEXT]
Gulf Coast, vol. 32, no. 2, 2020, pp. 121-41
“That He Had a Father” [FULL TEXT]
Florida Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 139-41
“Imaginary Things” [FULL TEXT]
Arts & Letters, no. 38, 2019, pp. 92-93
“We Have All Been Dead” [FULL TEXT]
Bellingham Review, no. 77, 2018
“She Made My Eyes” [FULL TEXT]
Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 57, no. 2, 2018, pp. 247-61
“Killing Trees” [FULL TEXT]
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 3, vol. 9, 2018
“Zahr-e-mar, The Memoir of a Girl-Snake” [FULL TEXT]
Crab Orchard Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011, pp. 193-209
Poetry
“I Am the Dead Thing Below” [FULL TEXT]
Hayden’s Ferry, issue 65, 2019, pp. 7-8
“Ghost-Mother, Book 3, Section 7” [FULL TEXT]
North American Review, vol. 304, no. 3, 2019, pp. 28-29
“Reasons.” Salt Hill, no. 41, pp. 140-45
“What Would Rumi Do?” [FULL TEXT]
Radius: Poetry from the Center to the Edge, 9 May 2018
“Will I Still Be Persian If My Mother Dies?”
Diode Poetry Journal, Volume 11, Number 1, 2018