“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