I’m a writer from Miami currently living in San Francisco. My first novel, The Meaning of Daughter, is a multigenerational story about the lives of three women artists and art dealers in a Lebanese-Haitian-American family. It explores ambition, motherhood, and how individual desires resist gender expectations and it’s forthcoming in fall 2026 from University of Iowa Press. I’ve received support for my writing from the Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University and the Mendocino Writers’ Conference. I’ve taught creative writing to children and adults in many settings including universities, high schools, middle schools, libraries, and rehabilitation centers. I’m an Artist-in-Residence at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and I work for Writopia Lab, a nonprofit organization that provides creative writing workshops to children. I edited the literary magazine The Brooklyn Quarterly for several years.