“The Earth Dreams in Ritual”  n+1, 11/2020 

“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting for” Beside, 11/2019

“Conversations with Bongjun” n+1, 1/2019

“An Account of My Hut” n+1, 5/2018

“California Burning” The Guardian: Long Reads, 5/2018

“Writer’s Read,” The Rumpus 12/2016

“Rainbow Imam,“ Quarter After Eight, 3/2016

“Kazakh Flash Mob 2015!” Lonely Planet Anthology of Travel Writing by Fiction Writers, 11/2015

“Message in a Bottle,” The Wall Street Journal 01/2015 

“Riding in Cars with Muslim Boys” and “Infinite Village,” Subtropics 10/2014 Interview
Notable mention in Best American Essays

“The Comic Novel,” The Paris Review 08/2014

“Democracy in Batumi,” Harper’s 07/2014

“Georgia on My Mind,” Lucky Peach, 5/2014

“Waiting for the Electricity,” excerpt in Guernica 05/2014