Rubicon Press, in Canada, published my poetry chapbook, The Palimpsest of Exile, in 2009 and The Third Glass of Wine was published by the Writer’s Workshop, India, in 2015.

My work appears in RHINO, PostColonial Text, World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review and Chicago Quarterly Review (some poems are linked below).

This is a picture of my poetry on stage at the Georgetown Literary Festival in Malaysia. Poetry readings have taken me to wonderful — magical –places, including the International Stage at Het Huis van Poesie in Rotterdam and the Sugar Factory in Amsterdam, the Shanghai International Literary Festival and the Singapore Writers Festival,, the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators meeting in Bangkok, as well as the Irrawaddy Festival of Myanmar.

I have been the featured poet at Rhino Reads, the Woman Made Gallery and Travelling Molly’s in Chicago, the Hideout in Austin, In June 2013, I was invited to speak at Yet Do I Marvel: Black Iconic Poets of the 20th Century, in the Chicago segment of the Poetry Society of America’s 2013 national series, held at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago.