Photo credit: Michelle Chikaonda
Awards
Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award (shortlisted), Deborah Rogers Foundation (2023)
MA Residency in Tarragona, Spain, University of East Anglia School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing (2023)
Toyin Falola Prize (longlisted), Lunaris Review (2020)
Rhinebeck Residency, The Seventh Wave (2019)
Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship for writers of color (winner), Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2015)
Stephen J. Meringoff Award for Nonfiction (winner), The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (2015)
Literary Award for Narrative Nonfiction (winner), The Tucson Festival of Books (2014)
Publications
5 Lessons I Learned About Debt After My Dad’s Death That Everyone Should Know, Business Insider (2023)
As a Black Woman, I’m Learning that Rest Is Resistance, Catapult (2023; Publication closed)
The Universe Inside, Broad Street Review (2022)
I Took My First Vacation for Myself and It Was An Act of Self-Love, Business Insider (2022)
The Future We’ve Promised Our Girls, Africa Is A Country (2022)
Who’s Really Telling Your Story? Broad Street Review (2022)
What Washington Knew, Broad Street Review (2021)
Disappearing from View, Africa Is A Country (2021)
The Pandemic Showed Me How to Cut My Spending and Get Out of Debt, Business Insider (2021)
How I Paid Off 5-Figure Credit Card Debt in 18 Months, Business Insider (2021)
5 House-Hunting Tips After Seeing Nearly 80 Homes in 9 Months, Business Insider (2021)
Time to Deconstruct Determinism, Broad Street Review (2021)
If America Is The First World Then It Is Also The Third, Wear Your Voice (2021; Publication closed)
Riding the Stay-Home Wave, Broad Street Review (2020)
The True Thieves of Greatness Have Always Been at Home, Anomaly (2020)
Our Turn to Eat, Africa Is A Country (2020)
The West’s Desperate Need for African Failure is Costing the West Its Own Lives, Wear Your Voice (2020; Publication closed)
Anti-Blackness is Everywhere, Al Jazeera English (2020)
The Words That Will Bring Us Through the Chaos, Electric Literature (2020)
Living Conspiracies, Teaching Truth, Broad Street Review (2020)
The Only Way Out is Through, Broad Street Review (2020)
Death’s New Rules, Africa Is A Country (2020)
Song for My Father, The Pennsylvania Gazette (2020)
My Father’s Death Changed the Way I Think About Time, Modern Loss (2020)
World War III: The Rest of the World Has Nothing to Do With It, Wear Your Voice (2020; Publication closed)
Fuel Crisis, The Seventh Wave (2019)
Mourning Clothes, Anti-Heroin Chic (2019)
Tailoring My Clothes, Fitting into My Life in America, Catapult (2019; Publication closed)
Illuminated, Hobart (2018)
On Girls in Malawi and the Pressure to be Small, Just Like Me (2018)
Snakes in the Night, Arts and Africa (2018; Publication closed)
Colossus in the Veld, The Kalahari Review (2018)
St. John's Has Always Been A City of Goodbyes, The Globe and Mail (2018)
Anthology Contributions
Non-Fiction & Prose Fiction Anthology, UEA MA Anthologies (2023)
In the Sands of Time, Toyin Falola Prize Anthology (2021)
An Anthology on Process, The Seventh Wave (2020)
Self-Published (Medium)
Postcolonialities: A Troubled View from the South (2023)
Questioning the Constitution of the American Literary Canon (2022)
Getting Myself Into Formation: An African Immigrant Inhabiting American Blackness (2021)
A Holiday Parable for 2020 (2020)
We Weren’t Supposed to Win (2020)
The Jerusalema Challenge: The Challenge of Joy (2020)
The Things Dad Used to Say (2019)
On the Eagles' Super Bowl Win (2018)
Every Day's A Cute Day, Redux (2018)
The Answer (2018)