Publications & Film

FILM (I Think You’re Totally Wrong):

DOXA Documentary Film Festival – May, 2015

Massachusetts Independent Film Festival – August, 2015

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival – October, 2015
Atlanta Documentary Film Festival – November, 2015

JOURNALISM/OPINION:
Milo – ET, March 2, 2017
MuslimBan? – ET, January 31, 2017
Eric Trump vs. Mohammed Amer – ET, December 12, 2016
Trump’s Victory – The Express Tribune, November 18, 2016
The Professor and the Hijab – The Express Tribune, October 26, 2016
How Do Americans View Eidul Azha – The Express Tribune, September 15, 2016

What Would a Trump Presidency Mean? – The Express Tribune, July 22, 2016
War Is Beautiful – The Express Tribune, March 9, 2016.
Baby Asha – The Express Tribune, March 2, 2016
Oregon Standoff – The Express Tribune. January 11, 2016
Niqab or Equality, Not Both – Reason.com. December 12, 2015.
San Bernardino – The Express Tribune. December 6, 2015

Syrian Refugees – The Express Tribune. November 23, 2015.
Why Do Muslims Make Excuses for Apostasy..– The Express Tribune. September 25, 2015.

On Tahera Ahmed & the Diet Coke – The Express Tribune. June 7, 2015.
Does Charlie Hebdo deserve the Freedom of Expression Award? – The Express Tribune. May 2, 2015.
Netanyahu’s Victory – The Express Tribune. March 23, 2015.
Letter to the Muslim Action Forum – Patheos. March 14, 2015.
Should Eid be a public holiday in NYC? – The Express Tribune. March 11, 2015.
May peace win – The Express Tribune. Feb. 27, 2015.

Chapel Hill: Should Muslims in America worry? – The Express Tribune. Feb. 16, 2015.
#Ferguson: Was it only about being black? – The Express Tribune. Dec. 19, 2014
Will Islam be judged if Aasia Bibi is executed? – The Express Tribune. Nov. 28, 2014

Interfaith gestures: Moral placebos or progress? – The Express Tribune. Nov. 19, 2014

LITERARY:

Nonfiction: Sialkot – Seneca Review, Fall, 2017
Nonfiction: “Debating Ayesha” – Superstition Review, December, 2015 (Pushcart nominee)

Fiction: “Defiling Bathsheba” – Monarch Review. June, 2015

Nonfiction: “Statistics” – Pleiades. Summer, 2015.

Nonfiction: “Fornication” – Quarter After Eight. Spring, 2015

Fiction: “Circumcision” – Whiskey Island Magazine, February, 2015.

Nonfiction- Poets & Writers. January, 2015.

Nonfiction: I Think You’re Totally Wrong – Knopf. January, 2015.
Nonfiction: “Honor” – Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review. January, 2015.

Nonfiction: “Pork” – Harpur Palate. September, 2014.

Nonfiction: “Apostasy” – New Madrid. July, 2014.

“Contraception” – New Madrid. July, 2014.

Fiction: “The Crow of Suspicion” – The Monarch Review. January, 2013.

Give Money to the Arts? (w/Tim Jones-Yelvington) – The Rumpus, July, 2012.

Art: “The Glorious Right to Insult Kim Jong Il” – Reed Magazine. May, 2012.

Poetry: “Ai Weiwei Loves the Future” – Evergreen Review. February, 2012.

Fiction: “Saving Aisha’s Spiders” – Blue Lake Review. February, 2012.

Fiction: “Bukowsky Sleeps with the Most Beautiful Woman in Taiwan” – The Monarch Review. Fall, 2011.

Humor: “The Double Standard” – Fathermucker. Summer, 2011.

Nonfiction: “The Legend of Green Lake” – 322 Review. Summer, 2011.

Essay: Dear Zoetrope: Your Submission Guidelines Are Fucked Up – The Nervous Breakdown. July, 2011.

Essay: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates vs. the 2006 Dodge Caravan Owner’s Manual – June, 2011.

Poetry: “Double Fuck the Party Central Committee” – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. June, 2011.

Nonfiction: “The Meaning of Tao Lin” – Owen Wister Review. Spring, 2011.

Fiction: “Living with Aisha” – Rose & Thorn Journal. Spring, 2011.

Nonfiction: The Josh Lueke “Rape” – The Nervous Breakdown. April, 2011.

Nonfiction/Art: “Mao Zedong Is a Stupid Egg” – Sein und Werden. April, 2011.

Humor: “The Bigger Dance” – The Nervous Breakdown. March 25, 2011.

Fiction: “Defiling Bathsheba” – LITnIMAGE. January, 2011.

Essay: “Yin Dao” – Dark Sky Magazine. January, 2011.

Essay: “Seven and S-21“ – Prick of the Spindle. December, 2010.

Fiction: “Miss Ang Has a Very Comfortable Life” – Post Road#19. Fall, 2010.

Poem/Humor: “Cruciferous“ – Umbrella: A Journal. August, 2010.

Humor: “The Golden Rule” – Errant Parent. August, 2010.

Fiction: The Sexual Orientation Selective Abortion Solution – Ampersand Review, Spring, 2010.

Poem/Art: “Poem in the Form of Che” – Rio Grande Review. Spring, 2010.

Art: Jackson Pollock Archive: Lost Poem #291/Narcissism 1950 – Zyzzyva. Spring, 2010.

Poem: “Waiting for Pointot” – Conceit Magazine. October, 2009.

Poem: “Che No Fue Tan Grande” – SNReview. September, 2009.

Fiction: “When I Am Dictator” – descant. September 2009.

Novella: She Will Never Be Saved – Semi-Finalist, Faulkner, 2009.

Poem: “Cào: An Etymology“- Word Riot. July, 2009.

Fiction: “Leaving Aisha” – Monkeybicycle. July, 2009.
Fiction: “Leaving Aisha” – Pank’s Friday Five. July, 2009.

Nonfiction: Eighteen” – Drunken Boat. July 2009.

Humor: “Notes of a Sexist Stay-at-home Father” – Errant Parent. June, 2009.

Poem: “If Jackson Pollock Wrote Poetry” – Yankee Pot Roast. March, 2009.

Poema: “Si Jackson Pollock escribió poesía” – Yankee Pot Roast. Marzo, 2009.

Fiction: “Kigezi Fire” – Sloth Jockey. March, 2009.

Poem: “Love: An Etymology” – decomP. March, 2009.

Poem: “Yīn Dào: An Etymology” – The Pedestal Magazine. February, 2009.

Poem: “at the orphanage” – elimae. December, 2008.

Poem: “there is A cemeTery” – flashquake. December, 2008.

Essay: “18, Seven, and S-21” – Honorable Mention, Faulkner 2008.

Essay – “Yin Dao” Finalist

Short Story – “Keep Our Country AIDS Free” Finalist

Essay – “Initials” Semi-Finalist

Novel The Disappearances of Harrison Short-listed Finalist, Faulkner 2007.

Essay – “Eighteen Paragraphs: An Essay of Death and Imagination” Finalist

Short Story “When I am Dictator” First Place, National Writer’s Association, 2002.

Teacher’s Guide: The World is a Class – Good Cheer Publishing, 2002.

Novella: This Seething Ocean, That Damned Eagle – Reflected Images Publishers, 1993.

Novel This Seething Ocean, That Damned Eagle Finalist, PNWA, 1991.

Dozens of Letters, Articles, & a Column – The Daily of the University of Washington

LITERARY CRITICISM/INTERVIEWS:

Interview: Ali A. Rizvi – The Sun Magazine, Forthcoming
Interview: Patrick Madden – The Rumpus, December, 2016
Interview: Elissa Washuta – Superstition Review, Spring, 2016.
Review: David Shields’ War Is Beautiful – The Express Tribune, March 9, 2016.
Interview: Jervey Tervalon – The Los Angeles Review of Books. June 2014.

Interview: Poe Ballantine – The Sun Magazine. February, 2014.

Interview: Lidia Yuknavitch – Southeast Review. February, 2012.

Back Story: Living with Aisha – Rose and Thorn Journal. Summer, 2011.

Interview: Eula Biss – Hayden’s Ferry Review. Spring, 2011.

Another Unique Review: Tao Lin – Meridian. Spring, 2011.

Review: Harold Jaffe’s Anti-Twitter – Prime Number Magazine. Spring, 2011.

Interview: Peter Mountford A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism – The Millions. Spring, 2011.

Article: The Josh Lueke “Rape,” the Moral Placebo, and the Sad Seattle Sports Scene – The Nervous Breakdown. April, 2011.

Review: Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water – Bookslut. April, 2011.

Review: A Dagger in Cyberspace – Fourth Genre. Spring, 2011.

Review: Tao Lin’s Richard Yates – Chiron Review. March, 2011.

Another Interview: David Shields – HTML Giant. March, 2011.