Publications
“The Anthropologist” and “When We Speak Gujarati”
Featured in Open-Hearted Horizon
“Mother’s Day”
Featured in Poets in the Libraries Anthology
“Halwa” and “No Space”
Featured in Arts & Letters Issue 39 (Year) and nominated for the Pushcart-Best of the Small Presses Anthology
Awards
Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award by Poets and Writers, 2018.
4th Annual Short Fiction Contest for short story, “Broken Tasbihs,” Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center, 2017.
3rd place, Jeannie Dolan Carter Memorial Collegiate Poetry Contest for poem “Halwa,” Poets’ Roundtable of Arkansas, 2017.
Honorable Mention for prose piece, “Birthday Cake,” Southern Literary Festival, 2017.
Isaac Andrew Campbell Memorial Prize for Creative Writing and McCuistion English Prize, Hendrix College, 2017.
Arts & Culture
“‘Mamma Mia!’ goes up at The Rep” for The Arkansas Times, published March 15, 2018.
“South Toward Home,” a book review for Oxford American Magazine, published September 8, 2015.
Readings
“With Love: No Valentine’s Without Sudan or Palestine,” Virtual Fundraiser Reading 2025
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference at Arizona State University, October 2023 and 2024
“Our Stories: An Asian American Reading,” Kundiman Southwest Fundraiser, November 2021
Dark Braid Book Launch, Kundiman Southwest, December 2020
Reading, Poets & Writers, McNally Jackson Bookstore NYC, November 2018
“Performing Identity on the Page and Stage, ” University of Central Arkansas, April 2017
Argenta Reading Series, Little Rock, AR, January 2017
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