Writings
- SHORT FICTION
- “Janitor and Judge” The New Quarterly Upcoming
- “The Wedding of Leila and Hamid” West Branch Upcoming
- “Purge” Booth (May 2025) Web
- “One Thousand and One Cousins” Fiction on the Web (February 2025) Web
- “A Short Bob” Your Impossible Voice (Fall 2024) Web
- “Born Under the Shadow of Death” Silk Road Review (Spring 2024) Web
- “Punchline” EVENT (Winter 2023/2024) Print, later anthologized in Coolest American Stories 2025
- “The Corner Stall” Sonder (Spring/Summer 2024) Print
- “So Long, Gregor” Adda Stories (August 2023) Web Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023
- “The House Behind the Crossed Windows” Southern Humanities Review (Spring 2023) Print
- “The Fruit on the Farthest Branch” Humber Literary Review (2021) Print Web
- “Stray Dandelions” The New Quarterly (2021) Print Web
- “Good Girl” Potomac Review (2021) Print Web
- “The Naked Dream” Sou’wester (2021) Print
- “On the Bank of the Nile” Zone 3 (Fall 2020) Print
- “Move Around Us” EVENT (2020) Print
- “After the Election” Epiphany (2020) Print Web
- “Homemade” descant (2020) Print Longlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017
- “While Tehran Was Silent” Hermine Annual (2020) Print Finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Awards
- “Bazaar Bozorg” Bare Life Review (Vol 3) Print
- “The Mansion” Saturday Evening Post (Fall 2019) Web
- “The Late Bloomer” The Fiddlehead (Summer 2019) Print
- “Honey” Flock (May 2019) Print
- “Cured” Four Way Review (Spring 2019) Web
- “Relapse” Emrys Journal (May 2019) Print Winner of Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award / Nominated for Pushcart 2020
- “Destination: Tehran” Minnesota Review (Spring 2019) Print
- “The Thing” The Capra Review (Winter 2019) Web
- “Slight Turbulence Ahead” Bellevue Literary Review (Fall 2018) Print Shortlisted for Tennessee Williams Short Fiction Prize
- “Hollowed Out” failbetter (Fall 2018) Web
- “Extremely Lucky” Belletrist (2018) Print
- “A Galaxy Far Far Away” Bird’s Thumb (October 2018) Web
- “The Lacking World” Rumpus (June 2018) Web
- “5-Across” Watershed Review (May 2018) Web Nominated for Best of Net 2018
- “Curse of the Last Illiterate” Catapult (April 2018) Web
- “Heavenly Nourishment” Portland Review Vol 63 (April 2017) Print Nominated for Pushcart 2018
- “Bloody Steak” The Los Angeles Review No. 21 (Spring 2017) Print Web
- “Dayi” The Malahat Review No. 198 (Spring 2017) Print Interview
- “In Silhouette” Hobart (January 2017) Web
- “The Tajreesh Incident” Litro (November 2016) Web
- FLASH FICTION
- “Sisters and Lists” The Boiler (2019) Web
- “Viral” Wigleaf (Fall 2018) Web
- “Save the Date” Apt, a Literary Magazine (November 2017) Web Longlisted for Wigleaf 50
- “The Gaffe” Passages North (May 2017) Web
- DRAMA
- “The Architect” Post Road (2022) Print Web (forthcoming)
- “The Innocent Gaze of Irene Jacob” Santa Ana River Review (Fall 2020) Web
- NON-FICTION
- “In Isolation, But For Once Not Alone” The Bare Life Review (May 2020) Web
- “Movie Night in Tehran” The Walrus Print Web
- “Shaping a New Voice – Or, How the Specter of Censorship Still Haunts Me” carte blanche (July 2017) Web