Anthologies

2019

Best American Non-Required Reading 2019

“Arabic Lesson,” first appeared in Indiana Review

Available for purchase at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Prize Winning Pieces

The Master’s Review/PEN America Flash Fiction Prize

“Out and Out”

Indiana Review 1/2K Contest Prize

“Arabic Lesson”

Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster Contest, 2nd Place

“Full Custody”

Short Stories and Essays

2021

“The Disappearance of Jessica Mansour” Wasafiri, Volume 36 Issue 4

“Making One Hundred” KROnline Jan/Feb 2021. Commended in The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2022. 

2020

“A Mean Winter” Slice Issue 26 

“After the Snake” F(r)iction Issue 16 

2019

“Eid al-Adha” Cincinnati Review miCro Series

2018

“Ghaddafi is Dead” North American Review 

“A largo e piu a largo” (Translated by Zad el Bacha) Tuffi Rivista 

“Her Gorgeous Ribs” Prairie Schooner Issue 92.1  (print only)

2017

“The Collector” Crab Orchard Review Student Writing Issue 

2016

“The Sand You Swallowed” The Stockholm Review 

“All We Know” The Normal School 

“Ruminations” Whiskey Island Magazine Issue 68 (print only)