[2] His debut novel, “My Government Means to Kill Me,” was a 2023 Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of “The 100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times.

[7][8][9] In 2008, Rasheed and T.J. Brady were hired as a television writing team to serve as staff writers on the drama series Lie to Me.

[10] In 2020, Rasheed and Brady wrote pilot script to reboot the movie Finding Forrester into a television drama series for NBC.

[12] Rasheed sold his debut novel, “My Government Means to Kill Me,”[20] in 2021 to executive editor Nadxieli Nieto at Flatiron Books.

Set in New York during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the book centered on a Black, gay protagonist.