She was a pioneer in the development of virtual reality as an art form and her VR installation Beyond Manzanar, created with Tamiko Thiel, has been exhibited widely around the world and is in the permanent collection of the San Jose Museum of Art. For two decades she worked with the Mind & Life Institute on books representing the Dalai Lama’s dialogues with Western scientists, and she has contributed to many other publications on Buddhism, including Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi’s Running Toward Mystery. Her theater work includes directing and designing as well as writing and translation, with bilingual productions and award-winning translations of Bijan Mofid’s plays. As a contributing editor for Words Without Borders, she has translated contemporary Iranian poetry as well as classics. Her most recent book is Moon and Sun, a bilingual edition of her translations of Rumi’s rubaiyat.