I’m a writer from Miami currently living in San Francisco. I’m working on my first novel, The Meaning of Daughter, a multigenerational story about the lives of three women in a Lebanese-Haitian-American family. I’ve received support for my writing from the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University and the Mendocino Writers Conference. I teach creative writing to children and adults and have taught in many settings: universities, high schools, middle schools, libraries, rehabilitation centers, and once, in a casino. I edited the literary magazine The Brooklyn Quarterly for several years.