PAST EVENTS:
Writing workshop Dubai prison in association with the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature. Dec 8, 2004.
Alaska Quarterly Review Pièces de Résistance benefit reading. Jan 31, 2021.
NEWS:
Lovebird included in Best Small Fictions 2021.
Denial and its opposite: three questions with Hananah Zaheer. Agni interview.
Pushcart nomination 2020 by Smokelong Quarterly
Best Small Fictions 2020 nomination by Pithead Chapel
Chapbook LOVEBIRDS forthcoming with Bull City Press.
Smoke Long Interview: “Things I say to my son while he sleeps”
Finalist Smoke Long Quarterly Fellowship.
Tennessee Williams Scholar. Sewanee Writer’s Conference. 2019
Salt Box Resident Artist. Salt Arts. Pakistan. 2019.
Named Harper’s Bazaar Arabia as one of seven most inspiring women to appear at the Emirates Festival of Literature 2019.
About “Fish Tank.”. Short stories: Women in the workplace
One of Magpie’s “Top 50 people to follow in the Emirates.”
Best of 2018 Recommendations by SAND Journal.
Apr. 5, 2018. Short story "The time of old things" wins the Lawrence Foundation Prize.
My play "The Royal Shakespereans present: Romeo and Juliet" placed first and was selected as Best Of to be re-prodcued.
Pushcart nomination for A video store called Desire. Moon City Review. 2015.
Finalist for Doris Betting fiction prize. 2014.
MEDIA:
Dubai Eye Radio/Interview about the Dubai Literary Salon and writing.
Dubai Eye Radio/ Talking of Books.: Gravity of Brevity podcast.
Dubai Eye Radio/ Talking of books: castaway-05-05-2018
Dubai Eye Radio/ Talking of books: Andrew Sean Greer and his novel “‘Less.”
Dubai Eye Radio/Talking of Books: the greatest letters ever written
On the road with SmokeLong Quarterly. Jan 2019.