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Publications & Residencies

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BOOK

Motherland and Other Stories, Peepal Tree Press, November 19, 2020

FICTION

"Solomon and The Shed" excerpt of novel-in-progress - Solstice Literary Magazine - (**WINNER of the Fiction Award - Solstice Literary Contest - Summer 2023)

 

"The Sacrifice" Black Ecologies Zine (August 19, 2023)

 

"The Last Time" midnight & indigo Issue 5 (August 10, 2021)

 

"The Blackout" Transition No. 129 (Fall 2020)

"Walker Woman" Prairie Schooner - vol. 94 no.2 (Summer 2020)

"The Wish" Blood Orange Review  vol. 11 no. 2 (Spring 2020)

Novel Excerpt - My Name Is Sweet Thing - Part 2 "The River" -

Solstice Literary Magazine  (Fall 2019)

"Prodigal" - Kweli Journal   (Fall 2019)

"Help Wanted" - Pleiades - vol. 39 no.2 (Summer 2019) *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Novel Excerpt -  My Name is Sweet Thing - Part 1 "Whose Little Girl Am I?"

- Solstice Literary Magazine - (Spring 2019)  

"Cecile" Interviewing the Caribbean (Winter 2018) 

“Finding Joy” midnight & indigo (Winter 2018) 

“Birdie.” Moko, Issue 14 (November 2018). 

“The Encounter.” aaduna, vol 7. no. 2 (Summer 2017).

“Melba.” Susumba Issue 8, (July 2016).


“Market Bus Ride.” Southwestern Review, (Spring 2013).


“Goodbye, Marjorie – Part 1.” The Sunday Gleaner, August 2, 2009.

“Goodbye, Marjorie – Part 2.” The Sunday Gleaner, August 9, 2009.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION 

"The First Story" Ink Anthology, Hippocampus Magazine, (November 23, 2021)

 

"The Longest Hour" Tupelo Quarterly, (August 14, 2021) *Runner-up TQ24 Prose Open Prize

"Jamaican Bus Rides" Aunt Chloe (Fall 2020) 

"The Choice" The Rumpus - Enough Series - (March 31, 2020)

"The Year in Red Mountain Country" - Teacher Voice Anthology  (December 2019)

"On Nudity.” Southwestern Review, (Spring 2018)


“July 12, 2007.” Past-Ten, (July 12, 2017).


“Land of Peaches.” Rigorous, vol 1. no. 2. (April 2017).

“Into the Cold.” Life-info, vol. 10 no. 1 (2011).

 

POETRY

Two Poems: "Muse" & "And When Did It Begin?" - Smitten - Fall 2019

"Taboo” Duende (Spring 2019) 

“Go Beyond The Silence" Feminessay (May 2019)


Three Poems: “Homesick”, “Restoration”, and “In Remembrance”  Moko, Issue 13 (May 2018)


“In My Country.” Spectrum, vol. 39 no. 3 (Summer 2011) -

adapted into a folk song for choral performance by composer, Dr. Andrew Marshall.

RESIDENCIES or FELLOWSHIPS

Fiction Writing Residency - Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA, July 2023 (upcoming)

Fiction Writing Residency – Voices Rising Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, October 2-29, 2022

Poetry Writing Fellow – The Watering Hole Writing Retreat, McCormick, NC, December 26-30, 2019.

Novel Writing Fellow - Hurston/Wright Writers Week Fellowship – Hurston/Wright Foundation – Howard University – August 3–9, 2019.

Author Fellowship – Voices of Color Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing – June 9--15, 2019.

Fiction Writing Fellow - Kimbilio Fiction Workshop/Fellowship – Southern Methodist University, Taos Campus – July 2016, 2017 & 2018.

Fiction Writing Fellow - Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop/Fellowship – Oxford University, July 12-18, 2015.

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