FICTION, POETRY, ESSAYS
“On seeing a spider, in fall” and “a defiance.” Lakeer Magazine. Forthcoming 2024.
“Suddenly, a Man.” Already Gone: 40 Stories of Running Away. Alan Squire Publishing. Forthcoming Nov. 2023.
“Public Speaking.“ Pleiades Magazine. 2023.
“Girl in the window.” Oxonian Review. 2023.
“Writing Naked.” Encounters With Life: An Anthology of Pakistani Women’s Creative Nonfiction. 2023.
“ What Working at Abercrombie Taught Me About America.” The Cut. April 28, 2022.
“The Good People of Lahore.” Kenyon Review. Winter 2021.
“Lovebird.” Best Small Fictions 2021. October 2021.
“Apartment,” “A Record of her Days.” On the Seawall. October, 2021.
“Willow Tree Fever.” Waxwing. June 2021.
“Winter Harvest.” Nelle. Spring 2021.
“The heart first, then the rest.” Necessary Fiction. Jan 2021.
“The lucky ones.” Four Way Review. Jan 2021.
“32 Working titles.” 32 poems. Dec 2020.
“Lovebird.” Pithead Chapel. November 2020. Wigleaf Top 50, Best Small FIictions, Best of the Net nomination.
“Story about a boy.” AGNI. October 2020.
“Things I say to my son as he sleeps.” SmokeLong Quarterly. September 2020. Pushcart nomination. Reprint at Arts Against Extrermism (forthcoming)
“Fox in the yard.” Saint Ann’s Review. Summer 2020.
“After the Old City” Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 2020.
“An acute exacerbation.” Litro Magazine. May 2020.
Lahore. #vqrtruestory. VQRonline. May 2020.
“Course Syllabus: My Identity 101.” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. January 2020.
“Wednesday.” Hong Kong Review. June 2019.
“Boxes.” Every Day Fiction. May 2019.
“Stitches,” “Final Exam.” r.k.v.r.y. January 2019.
"Everything goes down easier with sugar." Southwest Review. Fall 2018.
"Smaller, lesser, things." decomP magazine. June 2018
"Fish Tank." Alaska Quarterly Review. Winter/Spring 2018. Distinguished Story Best American Short Stories 2019.
"In the days of old things." Michigan Quarterly Review. Spring 2017. Lawrence Foundation Literary Prize, 2017 (opens as PDF).
"One for mirth, two for sorrow." All our misdeeds: An anthology. 2017
"A first that counts." HuffPost. Nov, 2016.
“A sense of falling.” Sanskrit Literary Magazine. 2016
“The language of arrival.” Knee Jerk Magazine. March 2016.
“One for mirth, two for sorrow.” Westview literary journal. Winter 2015.
“Writing naked.” Potomac Review blog. 2015
“How to Live in America.” The Diverse Arts Project. Spring 2015.
“Listening for storms.” Gargoyle Magazine. Fall 2015.
“Wanting Medusa.” Inertia Magazine. Spring 2015.
“It’s a privilege.” Brevity’s nonfiction blog. February 2015.
“At the end.” Tayo literary magazine. Spring 2015.
“A video store called Desire.” Moon City Review. Spring 2015. Pushcart nomination (opens as PDF).
“Eight O’ clock on Friday.” Willow Review. Spring 2015
“The wandering Albatross of Summer.” Prairie Schooner. October 2014.
“Sparkle, sunshine.” Concho River Review. Fall 2014.
Finalist. Doris Betts Fiction Prize. North Carolina Writer’s Network. “Breathing at the end of the light.” 2014
“God in the chicken coop.” Bartleby Snopes. 2014.
“This is how I met you. Or love in the age of Hollywood.” Fat City Review. 2014
“The Baring.” Word Riot. 2013
“A moment of Silence” Out of Print magazine. 2013
“Why I am not voting in the Pakistan Elections.” Tribune Online. 2013
“Writing from a distance.” Potomac Review Blog. 2013
“Interlude.” Electric Grace: Still more fiction by Washington area women. 2009
“Freedom.” Pakistaniaat: A journal of Pakistan Studies. 2009
"The Fazl mosque." Review of Religions. 2006
INTERVIEWS AND BOOK REVIEWS
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Hailee Nielson. Smokelong Quarterly.
Book review. Inland. Southwest Review. August 2019.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Ahsan Butt. Smokelong Quarterly.
Book Review. Notes on the Flesh. The Arab Edition. June 2018.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with JSP Jacobs. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Elisabeth Ingram Wallace. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke & Mirrors: An Interview with Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Kaely Horton. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Kate Berson. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes. Smokelong Quarterly.
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Hannah Harlow. Smokelong Quarterly.