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’ve taught creative writing to children and adults in many settings: universities, high schools, middle schools, libraries, rehabilitation centers, and once, in a casino. I currently teach creative writing at an arts-focused high school and work for a nonprofit organization that provides creative writing workshops to children. I edited the literary magazine The Brooklyn Quarterly for several years.