Publications

Fiction

• “When the Circus Comes to Town,” Lawino Magazine
• “Pain Control,” Afreada
• “Mute,” Saraba Magazine
• “At a Stranger’s Funeral,” Blackbird
• “Miss Freda Pays a Visit,” Afreada (This piece was also included in the 2019 edition of the Best Small Fictions anthology.)

Poetry

• “In Search of Cleansing,” Brittle Paper
• “Razors for Breakfast,” The Fem Lit Mag (This poem was also mentioned in a review of The Fem on The Review Review. Read it here.)

Nonfiction

• “My Secondhand Lonely,” Slice Magazine
• “My Secondhand Lonely,” republished on Longreads* (This essay was included among the Notable Essays in the 2018 Best American Essays Anthology.)
• Review of Well-Read Black Girl Anthology, The Washington Post
• Review of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young, The Washington Post

Genre? I don’t know her…

• “Safe House,” Afreada
• Calling Out Ethnic Bigotry in the Ghanaian Public Sphere II, Savannah Lifestyle

Residencies + Workshops

• Fellow (Fall 2014- Spring 2015), Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice, Georgetown University
• Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, May 2017
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, June 2019

Education

• BA, French, Georgetown University, 2015
• MFA, Creative Writing, Emerson College, 2017