She is the author of three poetry collections, some of which were translated into French, English, Spanish, Dutch, German, Farsi, Italian and Kurdish. Her published translations include an Arabic-English edition of Ashraf Fayadh's Instructions Within and an Arabic selection of Alejandra Pizarnik's poems. She is a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature program at Binghamton University, working on a critique of the Arab feminist novel. She teaches writing classes while freelancing for a number of Arabic publications.