Featured in: The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Shenandoah, PANK, Hippocampus Magazine,
The McNeese Review, and jmww journal, among others.
select literary publications
In the Water’s Grip » forthcoming in Ecotone‘s 2023 Ocean Issue
Conducting Inventory » forthcoming in Mom Egg Review, 2023
Seasons » The Normal School, 2022
What Remains » CHEAP POP, 2022
*nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023
*nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023
The Intruder Comes at Night » Hennepin Review, 2022
Sun Tea » Summer/Girl portfolio, Mom Egg Review, 2022
The Flood » The McNeese Review, print, Spring 2022
A Brief History of an Obsession » Pidgeonholes, 2022
An Elegy for the Land » Headland Journal, 2021
Returning to the Earth » Full Bleed, 2021
A Black Mama’s Breathwork, or, the First Time I Had “The Talk” with My Daughter » JMWW Journal, 2020
award-winning work
Alien » *Finalist in december magazine‘s 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Awards
I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017 » Hippocampus Magazine, 2020
*Finalist in 2020 Remember in November Contest for Creative Nonfiction Writers
In the Drink » Boston Accent Lit, 2019
*First Prize, Boston Accent Lit’s 2019 ‘Wicked Short’ Nonfiction Contest
Bitter Grief » The Hellebore, 2018
*2018 Hellebore Scholarship Award Creative Nonfiction Honoree
full list of literary nonfiction publications
2022
The Last Time Miss Rita and I Talk » Nurture: A Literary Journal, 2022
Seasons » The Normal School, 2022
peril + power » print anthology, Nonwhite and Woman (Woodhall Press, September 2022)
What Remains » CHEAP POP, 2022
*nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023
*nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2023
The Intruder Comes at Night » Hennepin Review, 2022
Sun Tea » Summer/Girl portfolio, Mom Egg Review, 2022
Just Bare Your Belly » Mutha Magazine, 2022
Notes on a Holler in Tennessee » The Dodge (formerly Artful Dodge) » 2022
The Flood » The McNeese Review, print, Spring 2022
A Brief History of an Obsession » Pidgeonholes, 2022
2021
Life Won’t Be a Mess Forever » CNMN Magazine
You Don’t Have To Be A Superhero To Be Empowered » CNMN Magazine
An Elegy for the Land » Headland
In Bloom: An Abecedarian Reflection » jmww journal
Make Way For Some Pretty Mean Sisters » CNMN Magazine
Rediscovering Language (And Myself) Through Poetry » CNMN Magazine
In The Wake Of The Pandemic, There’s Greater Value In Our Everyday Moments » CNMN Magazine
Returning to the Earth » Full Bleed
It’s Time to Hit the Road » CNMN Magazine
Fixed » Nurture: A Literary Journal
Do You Know What Living Means? » CNMN Magazine
Nothing Is Better Than You » CNMN Magazine
In the Summer,… » HAD (a Hobart Pulp companion journal)
Perhaps There’s More Than Light At The End Of The Tunnel » CNMN Magazine
Take it With You » Fifth Street Newsletter (Desert Companion)
What is the Mythology of Your Loneliness? » CNMN Magazine
In Times of Chaos, Testifying to the Human Condition » CNMN Magazine
Sunflower, Caretaker » Knight’s Library Magazine
2020
Graphic Novels and Living a Life Fulfilled » CNMN Magazine
On Prophecy in Imaginations » Raising Mothers
I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017 » Hippocampus Magazine
A Black Mama’s Breathwork, or, The First Time I Had ‘The Talk’ With My Daughter » JMMW Journal
Jericho March » The Hellebore
Legacy, Complicated » CNMN Magazine
On the Subject of Your Inheritance » crepe & penn, print
I Know This Much » crêpe & penn, print
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