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I’m a poet, teacher, and editor in Philadelphia.
As an educator, I’ve taught literature and writing classes for undergrads at Penn and Michigan, Ulysses at The Rosenbach, and poetry to kindergartners with the Philadelphia Art Alliance. I’ve also designed and taught pop-ed projects about the Nakba and about Zionist pinkwashing.
As an editor, I’ve worked on stories for This American Life, The New York Times, and other outlets, as well as consulting with individual writers, artists, and activists.
As a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote about Anglophone literary representations of settler-colonialism in Palestine since the late 19th century.
My poetry has won the 92Y Discovery Award, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and prizes from the Academy of American Poets. I’m an alum of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan MFA program.
You can find some of my writing here, including this book in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. My next poetry collection, Visitor, is a secular crip liturgy.