Selected Writing

Books

Run it Back (Saturnalia Books, forthcoming in 2026)

The Rainbow Atlas (Make Me a World, forthcoming in 2027)

Poetry

Essays

1999: Mariah Carey Rainbow, 68to05.com

The Care and Keeping of You, Ohioana Quarterly

Interviews & Reviews

Awards, Residencies, Honors

Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (2024)

Ohio Individual Excellence Award (2023)

Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant (2023)

Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Contest Finalist (2022)

Periplus Fellow Finalist (2021)

The Ohio State University Global Arts and Humanities Fellow (2021)

The Studio Museum in Harlem's Education Practicum Participant (2021)

Hugo House Summer Writing Workshop Fellow with Kendra DeColo (2020)

Tin House Workshop Participant with Hanif Abdurraqib (2020)

Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop Participant (2020)

New York Writers Workshop in Sardinia Scholarship Winner (2020)

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Juror (2019)

Winter Tangerine Summer Workshop Participant with jayy dodd (2018)

Events

The Front: Ritual of Becoming (New Orleans, 2024)

The Poetry Festival at Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, 2024)

Con Tú Variety Show (Cleveland 2024, 2023)

Literary Cleveland: Inkubator (Cleveland, 2024)

Lit Youngstown: Uplifting Black Women’s Voices (Youngstown, 2024)

Ohio Poetry Association: Underground Railroad Whistle Stop Tour at Spring Hill Historic Home (Massillon, 2024)

Blax Museum at the East Cleveland Public Library (Cleveland, 2024)

Mac’s Backs Books: Interview with Joseph Earl Thomas (Cleveland, 2024)

Cleveland Museum of Art: Represent: Writing Inspired by Black Art (Cleveland, 2022)