Personal narrative & lyric essay
- “The First Work.” Hello, Goodbye, Hello: The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (forthcoming, 2024).
- “An Incomplete History of Trans Immortality.” Both/And, Electric Lit, June 2023.
- “What Remains of New York’s Little Syria?” The New Arab, June 2023.
- “Water With No Center.” Thus Waves Come In Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans (ed. Barbara Casavecchia), Sternberg Press and TBA21-Academy (2023).
- “Sea Monsters are Trans, I Don’t Make the Rules.” Oyster River Pages, 2022.
- “On Queerness.” Letters to a Writer of Colour (eds. Taymour Soomro & Deepa Anappara), Vintage (forthcoming 2023).
- “What Lies Behind the Words: On Translating While Trans.” Catapult, Sep 2022.
- “Catching the Light: Reclaiming Opera as a Trans Arab.” This Arab Is Queer (ed. Elias Jahshan), Saqi Books. June 2022.
- “How to Say I Love You In Italian.” Catapult. Feb 2022.
- “Adorning My Trans Body,” essay and photo spread, Just Femme & Dandy, Vol 2. Feb 2022.
- “Starting Testosterone During Ramadan Led Me to the Sacred in My Trans Self.” Catapult. Nov 2021.
- “Pennsylvania, Autumn: the Moment Before the First Draft of The Thirty Names of Night.” Powell’s Books blog, Dec 2020.
- “Worlds of Our Own Making.” Foreword to Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices issue. Sep 2020. Order the issue here.
- “Incantations for Unsung Boys.” Columbia Journal. Aug 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- “Celebrating Pride Also Means Reclaiming Queer & Trans Power.” Shondaland. June 2020.
- “Love Letters to Those Who Came Before Me.” Shenandoah. May 2019.
- “Stitching Wounds with Heirloom Thread: Home, Loss, and Forgiveness.” Salon. May 2018.
- “The Night in My Hair: Henna, Syria, and the Muslim Ban.” The Paris Review Daily. Feb 2018.
- “Small Acts of Creation: On the Short Story and the Novel.” Bird’s Thumb: Write Here, Write Now. June 2017.
Interviews, criticism, &c.
- “Decolonial Rearticulations: A Transwomanist Arab Roundtable Dialogue with Trish Salah, Rasha Abdulhadi, Amir Rabih, Zeyn Joukhadar, Joe Kadi, and Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán.” Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, “Trans/Feminisms” issue (128). 2023.
- Introduction to Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology, 2022.
- “Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine Envisions the Fantastical Futures That Trans People of Color Deserve.” Lit Hub, June 2022.
- “Andrea Abi-Karam Wants to Dance in the Ruins of Capitalism” (interview). them. Nov 2021.
- “Absence Made Present: the Art and Artistic Practice of Diana al-Hadid.” American Craft, Summer 2021 issue.
- “Novels of Other Apocalypses.” New York Public Library blog, Dec 2020.
- Book Notes & Playlist for The Map of Salt and Stars. Largehearted Boy. Apr 2018.