AWARDS & HONORS

2023 The de Groot Foundation Courage To Write Grant

2023 MacDowell (James Baldwin / Hearst Foundations Fellow)

2022 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship,
The Anderson Center at Tower View

2022 Periplus Fellow

2021 NYFA / DCLA City Artist Corp Grant

2021 Writers Residency, Mineral School

2021 Spring 2021 Mentee, AWP: Writer-to-Writer Mentorship Program

2021 April 2021 Guest Editor, Golden Walkman Magazine

2020 Honorable Mention, Pigeon Pages Essay Contest

2019                        Writers Residency, Vermont Studio Center

2017                        Writing in the Margins, Emerging Authors Mentorship Program 

2014                        Finalist, Small Axe Literary Competition

2010            Adria Schwartz Award in Women’s Fiction, City College of New York

PUBLISHED WORK 

2024 “Best Literary Sex: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin,”
The Weird Sister Collection (Feminist Press), February 13, 2024

2021 “Stush,” Plantin Magazine, March 10, 2021

2021 “Love Like a Rusty Blade,” Pigeon Pages, February 21, 2021

2019 “On Mirrors, Mourning, and Miles Morales,” Raising Mothers,
February 7, 2019

2017                        “Best Literary Sex,” Weird Sister, February 14, 2017

2016                        “Leverage,” Anomaly (formerly Drunken Boat), November 2016

2013             “Photography as Remedy: An Interview with Jamel Shabazz,”
The Indypendent, April 5, 2013

2012            “Uterine Fibroids: Knowing and Trusting the Signs,” The Feminist
Wire, April 12, 2012

2012            “How the Right Treats Poor Women Wrong,” Clutch Magazine,
February 10, 2012

2011                        “Pride,” Kweli Journal, June 2011
 

READINGS

2021 Mineral School Residents’ Reading, Mineral, WA, November 18

2021 Pigeon Pages June Reading, McNally Jackson Books (Zoom), June 16

2020 “Black Women Write Now” Reading Series, IG Live, April 29

2019 “Salon 127: An Open Mic,” I, Too Arts Collective, New York, NY,
December 20

2019 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, February 25

2013            Kweli Journal, The New York Times Building, New York, NY,
January 16

2011            "Turnstyle Reading Series, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY,
March 21

2010            “Island Riffs: An Evening of Stories,” FiveMyles Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, July 11

2010            “Conversations With Haiti,” Globetrippin’ Café, New York, NY,
May 6

2010            “CCNY Reading Series,” La Pregunta Arts Café, New York, NY,
March 12

EDUCATION

2011 MFA, Creative Writing, City College of New York (CUNY) 

2005                        BA, Communications, City College of New York (CUNY)