Book

In the Middle of Many Mountains. Press 53, 2013.

Fiction

“Silver Hands.” Ploughshares, forthcoming, Winter 2024.

“Pilgrim.” Cincinnati Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2021, pp. 129-41. [*CR Blog, “On Starting New Projects,” 22 Feb. 2022]

“Red Flags.” Notre Dame Review, no. 49, 2020, pp. 153-63.

“My Mother’s Hands in My Mouth.” South Dakota Review, vol. 54, nos. 1 & 2, 2019, pp. 11-17.

“A Quiet Garden.” Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 32, 2019, pp. 38-49.

“Girl, Upside-down.” The Bitter Oleander, vol. 24 no. 2, 2018, pp. 115-19.

“Hospice.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 4, vol. 9, March 2018.

“Seeds.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 4, vol. 9, March 2018.

“Girl.” Passages North, no. 34, 2013, p. 10.

 “Foundling.” Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Press 53, 2012.

“Stories My Mother Told Me.” 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.” Los Angeles Review, no. 9, 2011, pp. 194-210.

“In the Middle of Many Mountains.” Meridian, no. 23, 2009, pp. 123-34.

“What Will Happen.” 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

“Bahji.” Crazyhorse, no. 102, 2022, pp. 103-13.

“Proof Sheet.” Gulf Coast, vol. 32, no. 2, 2020, pp. 121-41.

“That He Had a Father.” Florida Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 139-41.

“Imaginary Things.” Arts & Letters, no. 38, 2019, pp. 92-93.

“We Have All Been Dead.” Bellingham Review, no. 77, 2018.

“She Made My Eyes.” Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. 57, no. 2, 2018, pp. 247-61.

“Killing Trees.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, issue 3, vol. 9, 2018.

“Zahr-e-mar, The Memoir of a Girl-Snake.” Crab Orchard Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011, pp. 193-209.

Poetry

“I Am the Dead Thing Below.” Hayden’s Ferry, issue 65, 2019, pp. 7-8.

“Ghost-Mother, Book 3, Section 7.” North American Review, forthcoming.

“Reasons.” Salt Hill, no. 41, pp. 140-45.

“What Would Rumi Do?” 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.