Award-Winning Published Writer

Select Publications & Awards

"vulva ode" - The Offing, Best of Net Nominee
all in a days work", "will they check for us / after death?" - Puerto del Sol Black Voices Series"
"6:29am, below sea level" - Up the Staircase Quarterly, Pushcart Prize Nominee
"Somebody almost walked off with all of my stuff" - New Delta Review, Best of Net Nominee, Pushcart Prize Nominee
"to the fxck gxrls at sea:" - Blood Orange Review, Poetry Contest Winner, Best New Poets Magazine Nominee
"an ode to my mother or how to make prom prom" - Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Furious Flower Poetry Prize Finalist
"Fantasy, Reality, and What Is Needed: Debunking Fantasy and Centering Truth in Black Women College Students’ Experience" - Celebrating Twenty Years of Black Girlhood: The Lauryn Hill Reader
"do you see it?" - A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living
"American Double Toasted Banana Nut Bread" - Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

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Notable Performances & Presentations

Barclay Center; The New Amsterdam Theater; The World Famous Apollo Theater; The United Nations; Skirball Center for the Performing Arts; ACPA College Students Educators International Convention; NASPA's Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Conference; The National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education; Nuyorican Poets Cafe; Bowery Poetry Club; Poetic License Festival; Women’s Center Stage Theater Festival; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.; St. John's University; St. Francis College; Monroe College; Indiana University Bloomington; Brown University; Wentworth Institute of Technology and Elsewhere