Selected Short Stories Published in Literary Journals:

• “Hiyam, LLC,” Grist, Issue 16 (2023)

• “Yusra,” The Arkansas International, The Body Issue (2022)  

• “Zizou’s Voice,” Prairie Schooner, Volume 96, Issue 2 (2022)

• “Rabbit Stew,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Decades of Fire: A Special Issue on Middle East and North Africa (2022)                                                              

• “Speedoman,” TriQuarterly, Issue 161, Online (2022)

• “In Memory of Dearbornites,” Volume 37, Issue 1 (2022)

• “Money Chickens,” Pleiades: Literature in Context, Vol. 41, Issue 1 (2021)

• “The Hole in the Kitchen Floor,” Epiphany, Spring/Summer Issue (2020)

• “The Census Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn,” The Georgia Review, Spring Issue (2020)

• “The Reincarnates,” The Common, Issue 17 (2019)

• “The Matriarchs of Margarida,” Fiction International, Issue 48 (2015)

• “A Martyr Artist,” Witness Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1 (2015). Distinguished Story Selection in The Best American Short Stories (2015)

• “The Curse of the Al-Turks,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Vol.15, No.15 (2013). American Writer’s Program Association Journals Fiction Award Winner (2013)