Poem 'About Roots'

Poem 'Approaching the Magic Number'

This paper offers a new picture of a modern Iranian poet and Nobel Prize nominee, Nader Naderpour, in light of his take on the feminine. The paper is an analysis of some less known love poems most of which were expurgated ...

Review essay of Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Constructionedited by Daria Tunca and Janet Wilson.

All poetry and translations from Transnational Literature, November 2017, in one file for ease of printing and downloading

Like much of my fiction, 'Crossing the Danube' is informed by an urban landscape. Other stories I have written in a similar vein have been based in Tbilisi and Damascus. The disjuncture between the world as we imagine it ...

Announcing his bid for the US presidency, Donald Trump caused outrage by claiming that undocumented migration from Mexico to the US showed that America had ‘become a dumping ground for everyone else’s problems’. Trump began ...

Poem 'Equivalences'

In theory, bilingualism sounds like a natural and reasonable option for many transnational families, yet in reality it can be complicated and at times impractical. I wanted to play with the term 'alien' and its legal ...

'Finding Mathilde' explores the struggle I had discovering a fictional character while researching my PhD novel in Alsace, France, the conflict between expectation and reality, and the complicated power of the witch archetype