Non-Fiction

Larissa Pham on an Uncanny Book Tour— Electric Literature (February 2026)

Interweaving Narrative Voices— Electric Literature (November 2025)

Frame Narratives and Namelessness in First Novels— Electric Literature (July 2025)

3 Debut Writers Discuss Craft and Obsession — Electric Literature (April 2025)

Aria Aber on Finding Transcendence in Berlin’s Underground Scene— Electric Literature (January 2025)

Three Literary Translators Discuss Their Paths to Writing — Electric Literature (December 2024)

Navid Sinaki’s Debut Is the Love Story He Might Have Lived if He Never Left Iran— Electric Literature (August 2024)

3 Debut Novelists Reveal How Their First Books Came Together — Electric Literature (July 2024)

Ayşegül Savaş Casts a Lens on Life’s Small Joys in “The Anthropologists”— Electric Literature (July 2024)

Clare Sestanovich Writes from the Unanswered, the Uncertain, and the Unknown — Electric Literature (June 2024)

Every Age is a Tender Age for an Artist— Electric Literature (October 2023)

7 Craft Books to Help You Become a Better Writer— Electric Literature (October 2023)

Jonathan Lethem Returns to Dean Street— Electric Literature (October 2023)

8 Campus Novels Set in Grad School— Electric Literature (August 2023)

Turning Small Rebellions Into a Large Literary Revolution— Electric Literature (June 2023)

8 Novels Spotlighting Middle Eastern American Women— Electric Literature (April 2023)

The Hidden Gems of High School — LA Times (April 2017)

Fiction

“Tourist Attractions” — The Hopkins Review (Winter 2024)

“How Adam Met Eve Outside of a Bar in Queens” — Threepenny Review (Summer 2024)

“A Missed Subscription”— Cultbytes (October 2022)

Press

Bridging Worlds Through Art — Profile | Kyla Walker joins ISC as International Justice Poetry Fellow (2025)

Distinctions

Pushcart Prize Nominee (2024)

Tin House Workshop Scholar (Summer 2023)

PERIPLUS Collective Fellow: Lit Hub Announcement — mentored by Hilary Leichter (2023)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Fellow-in-Residence (December 2024)

Shortlisted for the First Pages Prize — judged by Edwidge Danticat (Summer 2024)

Attended theDisquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal — instructed by Jonathan Escoffery (Summer 2024)

Longlisted for the Granum Foundation Prize (2023)

Finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar’sEmerging Novelist Award (2023)

Alpine Fellowship Prize, Tuscany. Honorable Mention (2024)