My work centers stories of survival, community, nature, and expansion.

I seek to make art that embodies the conditions of our humanness – at times despairing, other times humorous, always rooted in reverence and hope.

I write with tenderness, where being soft can be a puncturing tool to timeworn narratives of diasporic alienation and suffering, claiming instead, a space to belong.

My work is hybrid - largely autobiographical and laced with lyrical, fictive elements. This allows me to explore worlds unknown, the worlds of those from which I am descended, and those I wish to know. I contend with the impact of erasure, bringing forth narratives that often disappear into the folds of the mainstream. The daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants, I learned early on of the power of language to mobilize communities and reimagine the world.

Support from Catapult, Asian American Writers Workshop, Kundiman, Asian American Feminist Collective, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, The Wedding Cake House at Dirt Palace, and the Peter Bullough Foundation has shaped me. I have a BA in Anthropology and America Studies from Wesleyan University, and a MA in International and Transcultural Education from Columbia University - Teachers College.

I am based in New York City and South Florida. Things I love: the ocean, pop culture trivia, botany, and black eyeliner.