My essays and poems have appeared in anthologies, newspapers and magazines including the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Callaloo, ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature, South Asian Review and elsewhere. My recent NYT’s story, “A Delicate Matter in the Examination Room,” tells the story of a refugee, who shares the challenges and humor of translating medical terms.

In “Railway Track,” the protagonist discovers that being a mental health counselor is like being a detective. Another short story, “Soot,” published by a Feminist Press anthology, And the World Changed (ed. Muneeza Shamsie), is about a Pakistani woman pursuing a graduate internship at an Indian non-profit organization, while “A Sandstone Past” in Neither Night Nor Day: 13 Stories By Women Writers From Pakistan (ed. Rakshanda Jalil) is told in the voice of a 14-year-old, who recounts a story that highlights the impact of 1947 Partition on contemporary Karachi.