Work

Fiction

Pain Control

Afreada

 

Mute

Saraba Magazine

At a Stranger’s Funeral

Blackbird

Safe House

Afreada

Miss Freda Pays a Visit

Afreada

Nonfiction

My Secondhand Lonely

Slice Magazine

(also published on Longreads)

Review of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker

Washington Post

Local Accra with a Twist of International Luxe

Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism

Review of Well-Read Black Girl anthology

Washington Post

Poetry

Razors for Breakfast

The Fem Lit Mag

(mentioned in this review on The Review Review)

Some Collective Nouns for Black Girls/What We Call Our Selves When We Are Alone/What We Named Our Young Selves in the Grimy Club Bathroom Where We Became Sisters

Torch Literary Arts

Benediction for Black Madonna
a 2020 City of Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program selection

A Glamouring and A Rendering

Electric Marronage Blog

Residencies + Workshops

Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice

Georgetown University

Fall 2014-Spring 2015

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

June 2019

Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop

University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados

May 2017

Mother Mercy Call to Create Incubator

March-November 2020

Mother Mercy Writer’s Residency

2021

(Photo by Lloyd K. Sarpong)