Inspired by Zoroastrian mythology, Asal in Fire is a YA trilogy saga following an Iranian American teenage girl trying to just get through high school and figuring out her new crush on her best friend when the universe has other plans for her.
Scattered Arils is Dena Rod's debut poetry collection, now out from Milk & Cake Press. The poems in this collection excavates familial memory and ancestral inheritance, transmuting the narrator's identity into a queer future.