Scholarly Writing

"Assessing the Impact of Using Commonplace Books in a First-Year Writing Classroom: Reading, Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy." With Nusrat Jahan. Pedagogy vol. 21, no. 2 (April 2021). 

"How to Teach Students to Organize their Essays." SPELT Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 31-36. Pakistan: Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers, 2017.

"In Praise of Lichens: We are Lichenicolous Fungi." Co-authored with lichenologist John Villella, published in PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature, no. 10, 2013. (Monash University, Australia)

Professional Writing

Plant Ridge & Valley Natives: A Gardener’s Guide to Virginia’s Ridge & Valley Native Plants, Shenandoah Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society, 2023.

Freedom of Speech, Dilemmas in Democracy series, Cavendish Square Publishing, January 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5026-4507-4

The STEM of Digital Technology, Focus on STEM series, Cavendish Square Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5026-5014-6. Original text for third-grade reading level. 

Debunking Conspiracy Theories, News Literacy series, Cavendish Square Publishing, January 2019. ISBN: 978-1-5026-4048-2

True Teen Stories from Somalia: Surviving War and al-Shabaab, part of the Surviving Terror: True Teen Stories from around the World series. Cavendish Square Press, January 2019.

Human Rights in Contemporary Africa, part of the Focus on Africa series. Cavendish Square Press, January 2017

Literary Criticism

"Syntactical and Image Patterns in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," in Numéro Cinq, March 2013

"John Agee's Unconventional Use of Colons," in Numéro Cinq, February 2011

Fiction

"On Fire," short story published in anthology Tongue-screws and Testimonies, 2011

“Charlie’s Arm,” Ruminate Magazine, 2009 (runner-up for short story prize)