Poetry
A Maiden Name Was Once Useful as a Strong Test of Identity / Scalawag Magazine (April 2022)
Three Poems / Connotations Press: An Online Artifact (September 2017)
Mythos / TedXPenn (May 2015)
Our City Undressing / Jai-Alai #9
Essays & Interviews
Haunting the Archive: The media's obsession with my mother changed my relationship to grief / Scalawag (December 2022)
Black Girl Power: Exploring Love and Rage in Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ / Sojourners (April 2018)
Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility / LitHub (March 2017)
Fellowships & Support
Haymarket Books Inaugural Writing Freedom Fellowship / 2024
TORCH Literary Arts Inaugural Fellowship / 2023
MacDowell Fellowship / 2021
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop / 2020
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship / 2020
The Watering Hole Retreat / 2019
The Hurston/Wright Foundation Workshop / 2019
Lambda Literary Poetry Fellowship / 2018
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS IN THE ARTS • May 2011
Achievements & Recognition
Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, poetry installation (2011)
O! Wow List: 15 Dreamers, Thinkers, & Doers in The Oprah Magazine (2011)
The New York Times profile (2011)