Her Story Is
HER STORY IS, a collective led by women from the U.S. and Iraq, advocates for and produces co-creations between women artists from Western and MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) nations. Our process of co-creating lays new grounds for learning, grows a community of equals across borders, and promotes peaceful dialogue to transform established power structures. For more information, visit the HSI website.
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 Jabr (which we co-translated with Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya). This collection is titled Where Do You Live? أين تعيشين؟ and it will be published in Arabic and English by Arrowsmith Press in 2025. Poems from this collection have been published in Salamander Magazine, The Common, and 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 Contemporary 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.
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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 Jabr (which we co-translated with Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya). This collection is titled Where Do You Live? أين تعيشين؟ and it will be published in Arabic and English by Arrowsmith Press in 2025. Poems from this collection have been published in Salamander Magazine, The Common, and 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 Contemporary 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.
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In the following video, Where Do You Live? أين تعيشين؟ poems are performed in both Arabic and English at minute 16:32 (the video begins with a reading by the great poet, Dunya Mikhail):
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.
