Radar Poetry | Inside Persepolis; Self-Portrait with Crescent Moon and Plum Blossoms; In the Smoke of the Wild Rue Seeds; Ghosts (Coniston prize finalist)

Poet Lore | Reflections of Heaven (print)

Literary Hub | Chimera

Asian American Writers Workshop The Margins | You Just Told Your Mother You Don’t Want Children

Adroit Journal | The Return & The Dream

Tinderbox Poetry Journal | In the Beginning There Were Fires

Hayden’s Ferry Review | Self-Portrait as a Bowl of Persimmons (nominated for Best Small Fictions)

Parentheses Journal | Dream Without Words (nominated for Best Spiritual Literature)

Flypaper Lit | Self-Mythology

Poetry Online | Self-Portrait without Plans or Prayers

Quarterly West | Self-Portrait Alone in the Kitchen & Haibun for Learning 中文 on Duolingo (selected for Best Small Fictions)

AGNI | Hollowed (print)

Nowruz Journal | Belief Systems (nominated for Best of the Net)

Whale Road Review | Rosewater for New Year’s

Passages North | After 9/11 We Wonder if We Should Ever Celebrate

Seventh Wave | THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SAY THIS (nominated for Best New Poets)

Red Hen Press | New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (print anthology)

Green Linden Press | Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and its Diaspora (print anthology)

Vagabond City Lit | My Aquarius moon won’t let me rest

DEAR Poetry Journal | I go to a poetry reading in Oakland and I am reborn

perhappened | There’s an Iranian Drag Queen on RuPaul’s Drag Race

Longleaf Review |In A Dream I Speak Perfect Mandarin (nominated for Best of the Net)

Gulf Stream Magazine | Abnormal Pap

Homology Lit | I Go Back & Myth

Rise Up Review | Nocturne at 4pm

Kissing Dynamite | American Sonnet for the New Democratic Administration, or Everyone Celebrates and I Pray

Anomaly | Those Who Live & The Daycare Teachers Ask Me Why I Don’t Talk

HAD| Worlds I Create (nominated for Best of the Net)

Barren Magazine | Questions for the Outward Curve of My Stomach, Where I Sometimes Rest My Hand and Pretend to be Pregnant

You Flower / You Feast | In my wildest fantasies (nominated for Pushcart Prize) (print)

Santa Ana River Review | Savior

Glass: A Journal of Poetry | World War 3 is Trending on Twitter 

New Words and New Music with Voice | Rebirth: Vignettes; set to music by composer Josiah Catalan and performed at the Pitzer Center

Michigan Quarterly Review | Two Pomegranates for Winter Solstice (print)

re:asian | Inside of Me