Upcoming Events

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  • 10 June : presentation of Arabə e Queer, Italian translation of This Arab is Queer, Libreria Antigone, Milano, Italy (ITA).
  • 4 April, 2025 : live reading at Mousse Magazine’s event “Each and Every Gesture,” Istituto Svizzero, Milano, Italy (ITA).

Recent Events

  • 25-30 June: Kundiman retreat, fiction faculty (New York City).
  • 8 June: conversation with noam keim for the launch of The Land is Holy. Riff Raff Bookstore, Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 5 June: “We Are Multitudes,” a reading and fundraiser for Gaza featuring trans and nonbinary Asian diasporic writers. New York City.
  • 13 Mar – 1 May, Advanced Novel Structure workshop faculty with Lighthouse (virtual).
  • May: Santa Fe Art Institute Sovereignty residency. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  • 18 Feb: Tin House faculty lecture, “The Quantum Mechanics of Tension.”
  • 10-19 Feb: Tin House Winter Workshop, fiction faculty (virtual).
  • 7-9 Feb, 2024: AWP. Panels and readings: “Transfigured Flesh: Shapeshifting, Embodiment, and the Non-Human in Trans Narratives” with Rivers Solomon, Bishakh Som, and Andrea Lawlor; “Nonbinary & Trans Asians Writing in Rebellion” with Kirin Khan, River Dandelion, Ryka Aoki, and Kay Ulanday Barrett; We Call to the Eye and the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage launch reading with Persea Books; Writers for Palestine reading hosted by Mizna, RAWI, WAWOG, and al-Hadaf. Kansas City, Missouri.