Her Story Is
HER STORY IS, a collective led by independent women writers and artists from the United States and Iraq, promotes projects aimed at expanding linguistic, artistic, and cultural boundaries in response to global conflict and its aftermath, with a focus on centralizing the experience of women. HSI produces exhibitions, anthologies, literature, scholarly articles, panel discussions, theater productions, and an occasional residency in the Middle East. We believe our process transforms and builds a community of equals across borders in order to nurture peace.
This project is sponsored by Fort Point Theater Channel.
My tenure with HSI began in December 2017 when I traveled to Dubai with three other American women artists to participate in our group's first residency where Iraqis and Americans each led workshops, exchanged work, and began to collaborate.
My recent HSI collaborations have culminated in a book length correspondence in poems with Dr. Hanaa Ahmad (which we co-translated with Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya). This collection is titled Where do you live? أين تعيش؟ and it will be published in Arabic and English by Arrowsmith Press in 2025. Poems from this collection have been published in the Los Angeles Review.
As well, I've worked with several teams of co-translators to edit Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Poetry by Arab Women which will be published by Tupelo Press in 2026. Poems from this anthology have been published in Poetry Magazine, in The Common, in Consequence Magazine, in the Great River Review, and in Talking Writing Magazine.
This project is sponsored by Fort Point Theater Channel.
My tenure with HSI began in December 2017 when I traveled to Dubai with three other American women artists to participate in our group's first residency where Iraqis and Americans each led workshops, exchanged work, and began to collaborate.
My recent HSI collaborations have culminated in a book length correspondence in poems with Dr. Hanaa Ahmad (which we co-translated with Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya). This collection is titled Where do you live? أين تعيش؟ and it will be published in Arabic and English by Arrowsmith Press in 2025. Poems from this collection have been published in the Los Angeles Review.
As well, I've worked with several teams of co-translators to edit Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Poetry by Arab Women which will be published by Tupelo Press in 2026. Poems from this anthology have been published in Poetry Magazine, in The Common, in Consequence Magazine, in the Great River Review, and in Talking Writing Magazine.
Free2Write
Click HERE to find out more about my work with Free2Write Poetry Workshops for Trauma Survivors.
Click HERE to find out more about my research and writing process as regards sex-trafficking and objectification--in an article I published with Solstice Magazine.
Click HERE to find out more about my research and writing process as regards sex-trafficking and objectification--in an article I published with Solstice Magazine.
