Readings, Book Talks & Exhibitions

804 Lit Salon, Washington DC (May 2025)

AWP Virtual Panel, “Words that Build Bridges: Writing Across Political Divides” (March 2025)

“Our City, Our Stories” Reading in Honor of Women’s History Month with the Inner Loop at the DC Public Library (March 2025).

Virtual Reading and Conversation with Susan Buttenweiser at the24hourroom (October 2024)

Poetry Reading with VONA, New York City Poetry Festival (July 2024)

American Meo Book Talk, Asian American Pacific American Council, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (May 2024)

American Meo Exhibition, Casa Colombo Art Gallery (March 2024)

Reading at Open Mic, Busboys and Poets with DC Muslim Writers (March 2024)

Non-fiction Reading at The Inner Loop Reading Series (February 2024)

AWP Tupelo Press Poetry Reading (February 2024)

American Meo Book Launch, Brightside Tavern Jersey City (October 2023)

AWP Off-site Reading Atticus Review, Seattle (March 2023)

New Moons BIPOC Writing Party, Virtual (December 2021)

Montclair University, “Images of Muslim Women in 20th Century Literature and Culture” course (November 2021)

New Moons Book Launch, Virtual (November 2021)

“Shifted Nature” Exhibition, Alfa Art Gallery (January 2021)

Jersey City Annual Poetry Festival (October 2020)

Night of Hidden Life, Village West Gallery (March 2020)

Rutgers-Newark MFA Reading (March 2019)

“Poetic Graffiti” Salons for Life (March 2019)

SoulRPower, Jersey City Art and Studio Tour 2019, St. Paul’s Church (October 2019)

International Conference on Caste and Race: Reconfiguring Solidarities UMass Amherst (May 2018)

Jersey City Annual Poetry Festival (April 2018)

Motion: Emotion, Barrow Mansion, Jersey City (October 2017)

University of Hawaii, Center for South Asian Studies, Pedagogy and Community Building Conference (April 2017)

KGB Bar Rutgers- Newark MFA Reading, NYC (April 2016)

MFA Author Talk with Nancy Burke, Military Park, Newark

Dennis C. Hull Gallery, HCC Community College, Jersey City

Rutgers-Newark MFA Reading, AWP 2019, Portland (March 2019)

“Black and Brown” Exhibition with Akil Roper, Gia Gelato Cafe, Jersey City

“Gurgaon Utopia” Exhibition in the “Mithila Art” show, Casa Colombo Gallery, Jersey City

“Look Close, See Far,” Exhibition Chelsea, NYC (2010)

“Living” Exhibition, Community Legal Services, Philadelphia (2006)