My Burning City: WINNER of the 2021 Open Chapbook Competition

My Burning City is the winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, and the poems in this chapbook are part of a full-length collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, that was selected as the inaugural title of the Immigrant Writing Series with Black Lawrence Press. The poems "Rain," and "Armenian Folk Dance, 1915" won the PS Strousse Award with Prairie Schooner. My Burning City is a book of poetry about a boy escaping the Islamic Republic of Iran in search of a new homeland. The book takes up loss, immigration, and war as central themes.