Publications & Awards
Select Poetry
& Essays
Books
Awards
2026
"Making All Things New," Dappled Things
"In the Quiet of the Chapel, Prayer Can Become Poetry," Jesuit Media Lab
2025
"You Are" Poems, Rabbit Room Poetry
"Set Right by the Strangeness of Poetry," Rabbit Room
Second Place, "The Sea / Is Sacred Still," 2025 Treehouse Climate Action Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Honorable Mention, "Mums from your Garden," Four Tulips
"Patron," Presence
"Educators Can Teach Students to Write Well -- And to Hope," Inside Higher Ed
2024
"Hope, a Miracle, Stands by the Trees Like a Shadow," Poems for Ephesians
2023
"Everyone Should Be Reading Palestinian Poetry," The Atlantic
"The Mowing That Woke My Daughter," The Atlantic
2022
"Settling the Storm," Presence
"An Ear to the Ground, and Something Sturdier than Stone," Capsule
"A Burned Scar" and "Lost on a Hike with My Family," Vermillion
2021
"A Glimpse of Birds," Claw & Blossom
"First Spring," St. Katherine Review
"History Speaks in Its Dry Voice" and "Arab Men Don't Cry, My Father Says," The Other Side of Hope
2020
2018-2019
"In Blinding Light," and "The Splash of Rain Came First," Dappled Things
Second Place, "The Sea / Is Sacred Still," 2025 Treehouse Climate Action Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Honorable Mention, "Mums from your Garden," Four Tulips
Third Place, "Moved by the Miracle, Beauty," 2023 Fare Forward Poetry Prize
Honorable Mention, "Trying to Explain What Knafeh Is," 2023 Zócalo Poetry Prize
Finalist, "Arab Men Don't Cry, My Father Says," 2022 Best of the Net Anthology