He has published several compilations of work including, Mai Mee Yingsao Nai Bot Kavi (Poems without Maidens) and Will My Playground Have a Bomb? Amataya studied Arabic language, literature and Islam at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow, India and is now completing an M.A. in comparative religion at Mahidol University in Bangkok. He translates Middle Eastern and Western poetry for Thai literary publications and is working on his first novel. During his residency, Bangkok-based Thai poet Zakariya Amataya worked on new poetry and a novel. Amataya presented a poetry reading Poems Without Maidens at Shangri La on June 17, 2011, Rhyme and Reason, a poetry slam event at the University of Hawai’i on June 25, 2011, and poetry readings at three public libraries on Oahu on June 22, 23 and 29, 2011.