Her poems have appeared in The Offending Adam, Diner, TheTHE, Poetry Blog’s Infoxicated Corner, The Homestead Review, 10×3 plus, 13th Warrior Review, The Arbor Vitae Review, and Arsenic Lobster, as well as in anthologies Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War Faith and Sexuality (Seal Press 2006), The Loudest Voice Anthology, Volume 1, and The Liddell Book of Poetry. She’s been honored with James A. Michener, Fania Kruger, and Virginia C Middleton Fellowships. She earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing in 2012 at the University of Southern California. Her collection of poems Of the Divining and the Dead was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012, and her collection of poems titled Limerence is forthcoming from Chax Press.