Hello internet friends. I’m a Chicago-based poet & behavior researcher. Writing poems with surprising syntax is my gentle fight against the robots. I’m usually found thinking, eating & talking about bread.
🎊 Now Available: my mother is a mixed metaphor 🎊
Released: March 3, 2026 from Rockwood Press
Read the interview in the Chicago Reader:
Curated Published Work
This is a smorgasbord of recent collections, poems, articles & essays that have been published
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2026 Events & Projects
Find me, my work, readings, workshops & events for 2026 below
Jan-Dec | 📝 A Year of Walking with our Loss | Maajhi | Facilitation, Virtual |
March 18 | 🎤 Dignified Futures | Featured Poet | IIT, Chicago |
March 24 | 🎤 Threaded Music & Spoken Word | Featured Poet | The Understudy, Chicago |
April 1 | 📝 Poems for the Get-Through 2026 | Curator | Virtual, Chicago |
April 5 | 📝 Unfold | Guest Facilitator | Emotions & Their Invitations | Virtual |
April 11 | 🎤 South Asians On The Mic Vol. 5 | Featured Poet | SAI, Chicago |
April 19 | 🎤 After Hours Press | Issue #51 Launch | Printers Row, Chicago |
April 21 | 🎤 Loyola Talk TV Production | Art for Communities, Chicago |
May 10 | 🎤 Shaam Ka Nashta | Featured Poet & Host | Nabala Cafe, Chicago |
May 30 | 🎤 Mothers, Daughters & the Self | Featured Poet | Congress Hotel, Chicago |
June 22 | 🎤 Book Launch | The Understudy, Chicago |
July 16 | 📝 Camp Write Start | Guest Facilitator - Grief Greetings | Virtual |
July 19 | 🎤 That’s Poetic!! | Featured Poet | Bramble Arts Loft, Chicago |
July 27 | 🎤 Poetry at the Green | Featured Poet | The Green at 320, Chicago |
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Press & Media Highlights
A few highlights from coverage over the years
Chicago Reader | Interview | 2026; thanks to Shivani Kumar & Kerry Cardoza
The Loyola Phoenix | Social Justice Week | 2025; thanks to Munya Noman
Forbes | Partition Poetry | 2016, thanks to Sonya Rehman
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