Writing

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Fiction

Memoir/Essays

Poetry/Experimental Prose

Interviews


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Fiction

  • “Man of the House” (reprint), The Best American Short Stories 2022, 2022
  • “Mama’s Boy,” Iron Horse Literary Review, 2022
    • Pushcart Prize nomination
  • “Family Tree,” Prairie Schooner, 2020
    • Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award recipient
    • honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2021
  • “How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell About It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949),” Missouri Review, 2017
    • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipienthonorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2018
  • “Yellow Brick Secrets,” Tidal Basin Review, 2010
    • NEA Literature Fellowship recipientTidal Basin Review Editorial Prize recipient & Pushcart Prize nomination

Memoir/Essays

  • “Dirty Money,” Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices (Harpervia), 2023
  • “Naturally: A Hair Journey to Africa and Beyond,” Trauma, Tresses, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives (Chicago Review Press), 2022
  • “Stranger in Elmina,” The Literary Review, 2009
    • PALF Africana Creative Nonfiction Award recipient
    • honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2010
  • “Surprise at the Castle” and “Ghana Sabor!” Black Renaissance Noire, 2008
  • “Welcome Home,” Babel Fruit, 2007
    • Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient
  • “Oburonyi No More,” Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press), 2006