Publications

SHORT STORIES

"Sonali Exchange" - short story winner of the 2013 Peter S. Prescott Award for Prose Writing and the 2013 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Prose
"Traditional Healing" - short story published on The Rumpus
"No More Stories" - short story published in anthology, Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Artwork Inspired by Octavia Butler
"Dark Spot" - serialized short story published in SpliceLit Mag 

PODCASTS, INTERVIEWS, & APPEARANCES

Project As[I]Am's Summer Salon - panel and reading at Bluestockings bookstore
The Present: Who Do We Create For? and Creating a Home for Writing - panel and workshop at the 2016 Muslim Protagonist conference at Columbia University
Our Own Reflections: Writing Complex Characters of Color - workshop at Hugo House, Seattle
Millennials Losing Faith - panel at 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival
Nothing - Paper Cuts podcast episode for ClockTower Radio
Dare to Use the F-Word: Zines - Barnard Center for Research on Women podcast episode
"Holding Hands" - reading at the 1,000 Words event for the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition
Drop That Hyphen: On Community - Project As[I]Am podcast
On Anti-Violence, Artivism, and Healing - StoryCorps interview with Purvi Shah

ARTICLES

"Legitimacy Issues" - an essay on transnational adoption published in CultureStrike
"Where Can Queer Muslims Go To Pray?" - published in The Atlantic
"8 Questions with Jordan Alam" - an interview with myself at the Aspen Ideas Festival blog
Chasing Perfect: A Primer on Asian American Women and Psychology - pamphlet created for the Active Minds 2011-2012 Emerging Scholars program

HONORS & AWARDS

Washington State 4Culture Grant Recipient 2015
Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient 2015

Guest Blogger at Refuse The Silence