Publications
Print Publications
Winner of the 2023 Wandering Aengus Press prize
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In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
“In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls is a fresh and moving debut from a writer who has lived multiple lives and gifts us its poignant and rhythmic sojourn.
— Sahar Muradi, author of OCTOBERS, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
“In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history, and the grief and joy of being in this world and on this earth.
— Eman Quotah, Arab American Book Award-winning author, Bride of the Sea
The Call of Paradise
“The speaker of Majda Gama’s The Call of Paradise is a ‘[b]ride of many cities, daughtered by the East & mothered by the West’…”
We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
“Exquisitely curated and introduced by acclaimed authors Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, We Call to the Eye & the Night is at once sexy, sensuous, adventurous, nostalgic, and iconoclastic—a treasury of love emanating from the Arab world and its diaspora“
50 Years of The Moose
“‘The Moose’ is a work that lives deep in the poetic consciousness of contemporary writers. For the Surrey Street Poets, much of the satisfaction of writing these poems arose from letting this consciousness come to the surface in a way not unlike encountering a moose on a country road at night.”
Poems
All My Life I Never Once, Terrain.org
“In Great Aunt Noor's Salon” | Winner of the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets
"Ruz" and "Countries Yet To Exist" | 2024 Gregory Djanikian Scholar selection
Pastoral in the Anthropocene, RHINO | Honorable mention for the 2020 RHINO Founder's Prize, Pushcart nomination
Meeting Jibreel, Room | Honorable Mention for Room's Poetry Contest 2020
Eastern Words, Ran Off with the Star Bassoon
Ascenseur, The Adroit Journal | Pushcart Prize nomination
In The Hall Of The Mountain King, Four Way Review
In the City of Eve, Poetry Magazine
In Maryland, Before the Dayton Accords, Night Heron Barks | Best New Poets nomination
Tala (Ode to the Girl Palm), West Trestle Review
Two Poems, Green Mountains Review | 2017 finalist Neil Shepard prize for poetry
Why Aren’t You Just American?, Minola Review | 2019 Minola Review contest finalist, Pushcart nomination
Like a Gyrfalcon in the Desert, I Was Raised To Be Useless; Memorious
Additional Print Publications
East: West, Ploughshares (Winter 2023 - 24)
Prairie Schooner (Vol. 97, No. 4, 2023)
Nimrod: Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (Spring/Summer 2019, Vol. 62 No. 2)
Slice Magazine, ISSUE 22 BORDERS, (Spring/Summer 2018)
Fairy Tale Review, The Translucent Issue (Vol. 13, 2017)
Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue (Vol. 11, 2015)
