Publications & Awards
Publications
The Rumpus, "The Aesthetics of Safety," July 2021 (forthcoming)
Electric Literature, "How to Be a Terrible No-good African Daughter," June 2021
Vol 1. Brooklyn, "Liquid Stories: Writing and Teaching the Personal in White Literary Spaces," April 2020
Entropy Mag, "Dayo Dying," March 2020
Atticus Review Volume III (print issue), “Too many love stories,” March 2020
Bending Genres 2020 Anthology, “MEEK BLACK WOMAN,” March 2020
Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize Selected by Lacy M. Johnson, Entryways into memories that might assemble me, January 2020
Third Coast, “I am sorry to inform you about the banana peel thrown at the black girl: A One Woman Show,” Fall/Winter 2019
Atticus Review, “Too many love stories,” February 2019
Nat.Brut Beyond Resilience Folio: Edited by Kay Ulanday Barrett, “MARKED MANIFESTO,” “Segment on the inner workings of a first-generation girl,” November 2018
Rogue Agent, “The African Dream,” September 2018
A version of “Today my Child Spoke” appears in Input/Output (a limited edition collaborative chapbook), Tanline Printing, August 2018
Heavy Feather Review: #NO MORE PRESIDENTS, “Race Day,” July 2018
Cosmonauts Avenue, “White Boyfriend,” “entryways…” "Verb: To Systematize," March 2018
Bending Genres, “MEEK BLACK WOMAN,” February 2018
Honors
Ragdale Foundation Residency, 2021
Tin House Writers Workshop in Nonfiction w/ Elissa Washuta, 2020
Anderson Center at Tower View Residency, 2019
Miami University Jordan Goodman Prize in Nonfiction, 2019
VONA/Voices of Our Nation Workshop in Poetry w/ Samiya Bashir, 2018
"The Best of the Best Of" Picked by Jason Teal, Heavy Feather Review, 2018
The Rumpus, "The Aesthetics of Safety," July 2021 (forthcoming)
Electric Literature, "How to Be a Terrible No-good African Daughter," June 2021
Vol 1. Brooklyn, "Liquid Stories: Writing and Teaching the Personal in White Literary Spaces," April 2020
Entropy Mag, "Dayo Dying," March 2020
Atticus Review Volume III (print issue), “Too many love stories,” March 2020
Bending Genres 2020 Anthology, “MEEK BLACK WOMAN,” March 2020
Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Prize Selected by Lacy M. Johnson, Entryways into memories that might assemble me, January 2020
Third Coast, “I am sorry to inform you about the banana peel thrown at the black girl: A One Woman Show,” Fall/Winter 2019
Atticus Review, “Too many love stories,” February 2019
Nat.Brut Beyond Resilience Folio: Edited by Kay Ulanday Barrett, “MARKED MANIFESTO,” “Segment on the inner workings of a first-generation girl,” November 2018
Rogue Agent, “The African Dream,” September 2018
A version of “Today my Child Spoke” appears in Input/Output (a limited edition collaborative chapbook), Tanline Printing, August 2018
Heavy Feather Review: #NO MORE PRESIDENTS, “Race Day,” July 2018
Cosmonauts Avenue, “White Boyfriend,” “entryways…” "Verb: To Systematize," March 2018
Bending Genres, “MEEK BLACK WOMAN,” February 2018
Honors
Ragdale Foundation Residency, 2021
Tin House Writers Workshop in Nonfiction w/ Elissa Washuta, 2020
Anderson Center at Tower View Residency, 2019
Miami University Jordan Goodman Prize in Nonfiction, 2019
VONA/Voices of Our Nation Workshop in Poetry w/ Samiya Bashir, 2018
"The Best of the Best Of" Picked by Jason Teal, Heavy Feather Review, 2018