I am a Performance Poet and Multi-Disciplinary Artist. I won the Richard Carver Award in 2022, the same year I was a BC Culture Days Ambassador. My career as a poet began in 2014 when I came across the idea of writing poems for people on the street, on a typewriter. I’ve written hundreds of poems over the past decade for strangers across Canada, the US and Australia. 

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The way I have learned my craft is through experience and action. In the early days, I organised and hosted two series of events; Art Party’s and The House of Word. My ability to bring artists and community together gave me a foundation of understanding the industry I have chosen to work in.  

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In the past decade, I have completed many projects to elevate my career to new heights. From performance poetry, a one-woman show, teaching written and spoken word, painting three murals, having art shows with my visual framed poems and my poem booth, where I continue to write folks custom poems.  My first book comes out on September 10th 2024, titled, Are You Listening?  

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My work has been published with Pownal Street Press, Moniker Press, The Rising Phoenix Review, The Black Bear Review, Peace Chronicles, and Elephant  Journal. I've been in publications for 'From The Heart' projects and most recently 'Passport of Witness', an anthology of stories from Palestinians in the diaspora.

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As a child of immigrants, born on the coast of BC Canada, my art is how I reckon with my identity whilst I live in rural and white Nelson BC Canada. I am Lebanese, Iraqi and Palestinian. I am my culture personified. Since I live out of context to my origins, I rely on stories and perspectives inherited from those who came before me. My current projects, a new play and a memoir,  are anchors to my longing to belong, to my people, from afar.