Book Excerpts
“What I Want My Kids to Know About Our Family’s Dark History,” Time Magazine, 11 July 2024
“The Texas Ranger Who Helped a Serial Killer Go Free,” Texas Monthly, 20 June 2024
“Refugee Resettlement Is Close to Collapse. That Was Trump’s Plan,” New York Times, 28 July 2020.
“A Refugee’s First Day in America,” Texas Monthly, 28 September 2020.
“Waking Up in America as a Refugee: On One Family’s First Day in Austin,” LitHub, 7 August 2020.
Short Documentaries (Producer)
Producer, “A Line Birds Cannot See,” a film by Amy Bench, distributed by The New Yorker
Producer, "Ask a Syrian Girl" Video Series, Teen Vogue, 22 May 2017
Selected Publications
“Whoever holds the banner will be shot,” with Cin Mual Pa, Catapult, “Myanmar Voices” column, 30 June 2021.
“This dad is desperate to save his kids, but he can't do it alone,” CNN, 1 Feb 2021.
"RNC Spectacle Revealed Sheer Hypocrisy of Trump’s Immigration Policy," Newsweek, 28 August 2020.
"We Lined Up for Bread and He Massacred Us," Catapult, with "Amal" and Amy Bench, 23 July 2019.
"My Hijab Looks Great with My Cowgirl Boots," Catapult, with "Jouri and Sham," 27 February 2019.
"How DACA Impacted One 16-year-old's Life," Teen Vogue, 5 September 2017.
"Syrian Women Explain How They've Survived under a Leader Accused of War Crimes," Teen Vogue, 22 May 2017.
Translations of poems by Lêdo Ivo, Image Journal, 89, Summer 2016.
Scholarship
“It is the people who have power,” with Noel H.K., Catapult, “Myanmar Voices” column, 28 July 2021.
“The Pandemic Is Just the Latest Threat Refugees in Abilene Face,” Texas Observer/Food Environmental Reporting Network, 12 June 2020.
“In His 70s, a Congolese Physician and Refugee Dreams of Medical School Once More," Catapult, 19 June 2019.
"When Sleeping in the Room with a Dead Body Is Your Best Option," Catapult, with "E.L.," 30 January 2019.
"What Stephen Miller Gets WRONG with His Comments about the Statue of Liberty Poem," Teen Vogue, 4 August 2017.
“My Family's Immigration Would Have Been Considered 'Illegal' Too," Teen Vogue, 12 April 2017.
“How to Support Refugees with a Microresistance Campaign,” Teen Vogue, 8 February 2017.
Translations of poems by Adélia Prado, Image Journal, 91, Winter 2017.
“What Suni Lee's Olympic Gold Means for Her Hmong American Community,” Teen Vogue, 5 August 2021.
"An Austin Family recounts the horrors of repeated bombings--in Syria," Los Angeles Times, 23 March 2018.
"How One Syrian-American Teen Turns Her Angst about the Travel Ban into Action," Teen Vogue with Spotify, 27 July 2017.
"The Cruel Hypocrisy of Trump's Sudden Concern for Refugee Children," Vox, 11 April 2017.
“The Devastating Cost of Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Fueled by Donald Trump,” Washington Post, 4 November 2016.
"The Guatemalan Asylum Seeker Who Was Almost Deported--to Mexico," Catapult, with "Rosa," 27 March 2019.
"Was the Art of S-Town Worth the Pain?" The Atlantic, 9 April 2017.
Interview with Dina Nayeri, “The Craft of Writing the Truth about Refugees,” Guernica Magazine, November 5, 2019
Bishop and Brazil, dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, defended in 2014. Photo source.