I’m a poet and novelist living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Have a background in critical studies, particularly of African-American poets. Besides seven books of poetry, my work includes a fiction trilogy, short stories, essays, and a musical drama. I find inspiration in my neighborhood, politics, art, and nature. I call the street “my Muse.”
Photo: Lorraine Chittock/Saudi Aramco World
The Coal Bin, I and II (expanded)
(Univ. of Arkansas Press, Fall 2009)
In Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction, 2nd ed.
The Coal Bin
(Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2004)
“The Coal Bin,” in Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction, eds. Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa.