“Fluent,” Fiction, forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Summer 2025
“Defamiliarization: Against Reality to Examine Reality,” Nonfiction, Analog Science Fiction or Fact, January 2025
“The Hive,” Fiction, forthcoming in Analog: Science Fiction & Fact, 2025/2026
“Second Chance,” Fiction, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January/February 2025
Finalist, Fiction, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund (Money for Women), 2024
Winner, 2024 Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices
Finalist, The Furious Flower Poetry Prize, 2023
“Jilbaab”, Poetry, forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, 2025
Winner, 2022 C.P. Cavafy Prize
“Grieve,” Poetry, forthcoming in Poetry International, 2024
Winner, Writer of Note, The de Groot Foundation COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note for The Missing, 2023
“Delilah Howe,” Monologue for The Ground on Which We Stand, Luna Stage, April/May 2023
“The Missing,” Radio Play, CCM Audio Plays, Dir: Brant Russell, 2021
Winner, Yemassee Poetry Prize, 2020
“double dutch,” Yemassee Journal, February 2021
“Erasure,” Fiction, originally published in Kenyon Review, May/June 2020
Shortlisted for the 2020 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, December 2020
Finalist for 2020’s Best of the Net
Winner, Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers in Fiction, 2020
Press Release: Hurston/Wright College Writing Awards
“Jellybean” as performed by Candice Handy, Monologue, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 2020
“What Contagion Got Wrong About A Pandemic in America,” Poetry, Manchester’s Writing School WRITE Where We Are NOW Project, 2020
Semi-finalist, Poetry, 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest, 2020
“Tasso - Fondènèg, Haïti,” Poetry, University of Canberra’s Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize Longlist Anthology, 2019
"To My Former Mentors, Friends, and Usual #31 Bus Crowd, September 12th, 2001," Poetry, Bettering American Poetry Anthology, 2019
Notable Poem, 2018 Gemini Magazine Poetry Contest
"Family on the Path Train," Poetry, Gemini Magazine, Fall 2018
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Winner, 2017-2018 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize
"The Prophet, The Fixer," Fiction, Mid-American Review, Spring/Summer 2018
Honorable Mention, 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Contest, Spring 2018
Press Release: Philadelphia Stories
Read "naps" and "The Last Time I Hung Out With Baby D and Them"
Winner, 2017 Manchester Fiction Prize
Press Release: Manchester Metropolitan University
Read her award-winning story "even the kids know better"
"To My Former Mentors, Friends, and Usual #31 Bus Crowd, September 12th, 2001," Poetry, Hayden's Ferry Review, Summer 2017
Finalist, 2016 Manchester Poetry Prize
Read her poems "Mecca - The Most Beloved Holy Place," "And So the Epidemic Continues Because We Haven't Learned From Our Past," "I've Decided to Stop Writing About The Hood," and "We only do the Halaal Thing Now" in Manchester Metropolitan University's 2016 Short-Listed Stories and Poems
Listen to her read on WFSU NPR's Fresh Picked Prose