Awards, Residencies, Fellowships

Virginia Center for Creative Arts 50th Anniversary Fellowship, 2024
MacDowell Fellowship in Literature, 2023
Hedgebrook Fellowship, 2023
Bread Loaf Contributor Award, 2023
The de Groot Foundation Courage-to-Write Award, 2023
Tin House Scholar, 2023
Maine Publishers and Writers Association Ashley Bryan Fellowship, 2023
Maine Arts Commission Project Grant, 2023
National Endowment for the Arts American Rescue Grant, 2023
Aspen Institute Emerging Writer Fellowship, 2022
National Endowment for the Arts project support, 2019

Mémoires & Essays

“Stingers and Summits.” Khôra. Corporeal Writing.
“Recording Revolution.” Michigan Quarterly Review. University of Michigan. [A Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2024.]
“American Education.” Khôra. Corporeal Writing. [Curated in Sari Bottom’s Memoir Mondays]
“Afghan News Update.” Shenandoah. Washington and Lee University.
“Bollywood Hijab 1985.” Khôra. Corporeal Writing.
“Cold War.” New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, ed Kazim Ali. Red Hen Press.
“Bad Muslim.” Aster(ix). University of Pittsburgh.
“Haricots Verts.” Aster(ix). Special Issue: What We Love. University of Pittsburgh.
“Write What You Don’t Know.” North American Review Blog. University of Northern Iowa.
Interview by Zohra Saed. Asian American Literary Review. Mixed Race Special Issue.
“Afghan-American Identity and Belonging.” Co-authored essay with Zohra Saed introducing our edited collection of Afghan-American artworks and interviews. Asian American Literary Review. Mixed Race Special Issue.
“Chadors and Hairspray for our Muslim Daughter.” Asian American Literary Review. Mixed Race Special Issue.
“Cold War.” North American Review. University of Northern Iowa.

Scholarly Publications

“More Life After Ruins: More Life After Ruins: Aut­­otheory, the Politics of Citation, and the Limits of The Scholarly Gaze.” ASAP/Journal 6.3. John Hopkins University.
“Life After Ruins: Ruderal Ecologies, Afghan Diaspora, and Another Anthropocene.” ASAP/J. John Hopkins University.
“Indeterminate Hikes+: Ecological Awareness and the Mobile Landscape,” co-authored with Cary Peppermint. Leonardo. Special issue on mobile media art edited by Mimi Sheller and Hana Iverson. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Time Out of Place: Modernity and the Rise of Environmentalism in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!” Cather Studies Volume 10: Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century, eds. Anne L. Kaufman and Richard H. Millington. University of Nebraska Press.
“An Animal Genealogy,” co-authored with Cary Peppermint. Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.
“What is Digital Eco-Art?” Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association. June 2010.
“Utopian Studies, Environmental Literature, and the Legacy of an Idea: Educating Desire in Miguel Abensour and Ursula K. Le Guin.” Utopian Studies. Penn State University. (Awarded the Society for Utopian Studies Eugenio Battisti Award; an earlier draft received the Society’s Arthur Lewis Award.)