Selected Publications.
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Selected Poems.
“Sister Ode,” Ujima Wire. Forthcoming.
“Hometown Nocturne,” Ujima Wire. Forthcoming April 2024.
“A Woman’s Body Is a Promise,” Sundog Lit. Fall 2023.
“After the Breakup, I Board a Plane,” Sundog Lit. Fall 2023.
“Bedtime Story (10),” Copper Nickel. Fall 2022.
“We title a Google Doc Winter Getaway,” Shenandoah. Fall 2022.
“Bedtime Story (8),” The Southern Review. Fall 2022.
“Border Control,” Shenandoah. June 2022.
“I Pledge Allegiance to the Republic,” The Sun. April 2022.
“Why are you afraid?” Narrative. Spring 2022.
“MYLIFEISPERSIAN.NET,” Nowruz Journal. Spring 2022.
“Grandfather Aleksander,” ROOM Magazine. Winter 2021/2022.
“First Crush,” Ploughshares. Winter 2021/2022.
“Childhood Biracial,” A Public Space. 2021.
“Inheritance,” The Rumpus. Dec. 2021.
“Men Follow Me,” Shenandoah. Fall 2021.
“Bedtime Story (5),” Poetry Magazine, Oct. 2021.
“When We Fall, We Fall a Flock of Two,” Crazyhorse. Fall 2021.
“Axis,” “The Iranian Amrikayi Packs Souvenirs,” and “What’s Your American Name?” Mizna, Summer 2021.
“Ramine’s Weather Machine,” AGNI. Summer 2021.
“Single Women,” Frontier. May 2021.
“Bedtime Story (6),” “Bedtime Story (7),” “Bedtime Story (9),” “Bedtime Story (11),” and “Bedtime Story (12),” Narrative Magazine. Feb. 2021.
“Naz Kardan” and “I Resurrect Myself with an Eight-Quart Pot,” Nimrod. Fall 2020.
Selected Creative Nonfiction.
“Masjid-i-Sulaiman: Images of Life in and around an Oil Camp in Pre-Revolutionary Iran,” Mizna. Summer 2023.
“Rudaki’s Tomb (Panjakent, Tajikistan),” The Margins, March 2023.
“An Alphabet Is a Becoming,” Black Warrior Review. Fall/Winter 2021.
Selected Critical Essays.
“White Magic: The Spellbinding Writing Power of Elissa Washuta,” Bitch Media. June 2021.
“The Persona as a Portal in The January Children.” Ploughshares blog. Word Press. May 2021.
“Writing While Biracial.” Ploughshares blog. Word Press. Feb. 2021.
“The Relationship Between the Military and Language in Look and Hard Damage.” Ploughshares blog. Word Press. Jan. 2021.
Contests.
Sycamore Review Wabash Prize in Poetry - 2021 finalist
Sundress Broadside Contest - 2021 finalist
Narrative Magazine’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest - 2020 finalist
Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry - 2020 seminfalist
Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets - 2020 finalist
Nimrod’s Francine Ringold Award for New Writers - 2020 finalist
Fellowships, Residencies, & Grants.
Alpine Poetry Prize - 2024 shortlist
MASS MoCA Assets for Artists and Greater Worcester Community Foundation Capacity Building Grant - 2023 recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park Writers Residency - 2023 recipient
Monson Arts Award Residency - 2023 recipient
Massachusetts Cultural Council COVID Recovery Grant - 2023 recipient
The Dots Between Scholarship - 2022 recipient
Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation Empower Digital Grant - 2022 recipient
The Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship - 2022 recipient
The Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program - 2022 recipient
Oak Spring Garden Foundation Interdisciplinary Artist Residency - 2022 recipient
Poets and Writers Open Door Career Advancement Grant - 2021 recipient
MASS MoCA Assets for Artists Capacity Building Grant - 2021 recipient
The Muse and the Marketplace Conference Scholarship - 2021 recipient
Boston Writers of Color Manuscript Consulting Scholarship - 2021 recipient
The Unexpected Shape Scholarship - 2021 recipient
George Bennett Fellowship - 2021 semifinalist
Shenandoah BIPOC Editor Fellowship - 2021 finalist
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship - 2020 finalist
Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship - 2020 finalist
Gauis Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowship - 2020 finalist