HONORS AND AWARDS
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Artist Trust Fellow 2023
Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Novel Award 2022
Town Hall Seattle 2018 Inside/Out Artist in Residence
Washington State 2018 4Culture Project Grant Recipient
Washington State 2015 4Culture Grant Recipient
Washington State Artist Trust GAP Grant Recipient 2015
RESIDENCIES AND RETREATS
Vashon Artist Residency Invited Artist 2022
Tin House Winter Workshop 2022
Kundiman Fellow 2016
ROLES
Kundiman Pacific Northwest Co-Chair 2017-2023
Panelist for 2019 4Culture Arc Artist Fellowship
Panelist for the 2017 LaSalle Storyteller Award through Artist Trust
Panelist for 2017 4Culture Artist Grants
APPEARANCES
WORKSHOPS
How the Body Holds Its Stories: QTPOC Artist Series & Writing Workshops
- Recently offered at Hugo House and Town Hall Seattle
Our Ancestors Dreamed of Us: Diasporic Storytelling
- 8-week course recently offered at Kundiman
- 2019 South Asian Awareness Network Conference (University of Michigan)
Finding the Power in Your Piece: Revision Workshop
- Recently offered at Hugo House
Our Own Reflections: Writing Our Origin Stories Workshop
- 2018 Crossroads Conference (Columbia University)
- 2017 Artists of Color Expo and Symposium (Seattle)
TALKS AND PERFORMANCES
49 Words I Wish I Could Write in My Family’s Language: Translation Essays (Hugo House, 2022)
Your Best American Girl: Asian American Femmes Reading (18th & Union, 2022)
Get Lit! Festival 2020 (Video reading)
South Asian Writers of the Pacific Northwest (Hugo House, 2018)
We Are Irreplaceable: A Night of Queer Asian Film, Poetry, and Art – performance with Jess X Snow (Amplifier Art Lab, 2018)
A Certain Type of Brilliance – 24 hour short-piece performance by femmes (Gay City Arts, 2017)
Ever-Shifting Diaspora: The Writers of Kundiman – reading at 2017 Lit Crawl (Seattle)
CRUX presents Embodied Utopias – performance lecture (Common Area Maintenance, 2017)
Womxn’s Creative Industries Meetup – panel discussion on writing in the arts (2017)
Our Ancestors Dreamed of Us: Muslim Writers in Conversation – reading and panel at Asian American Writer’s Workshop (NYC, 2016)
The Present: Who Do We Create For? and Creating a Home for Writing – panel and workshop for the 2016 Muslim Protagonist Conference (Columbia University, NYC)
Project As[I]Am’s Summer Salon – panel and reading (Bluestockings bookstore, NYC, 2015)
Our Memories are Cut and Paste – zine discussion and workshop (Brooklyn Museum, 2015)
“Holding Hands” – reading at the 1,000 Words event for the Eyes on Bangladesh exhibition (NYC, 2014)
Millennials Losing Faith – panel at 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival (Aspen, CO)
Mixtape – reading at the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective Transmedia Literary Festival (Asian American Writer’s Workshop, NYC, 2012)
SELECTED PODCASTS & INTERVIEWS
Nothing – Paper Cuts podcast episode for ClockTower Radio
Dare to Use the F-Word: Zines – Barnard Center for Research on Women podcast
Drop That Hyphen: On Community – Project As[I]Am podcast
On Anti-Violence, Artivism, and Healing – StoryCorps interview with Purvi Shah