Writing

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Fiction

• Man of the House – excerpt from Coleman Hill
• Daddies and Sons – excerpt from Coleman Hill
• What We Knew (The South, c. 1918) – excerpt from Coleman Hill
• How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949) – excerpt from Coleman Hill

Memoir/Essays

• The Joke  –  essay about racism
• On “Coleman Hill”  –  essay about Coleman Hill

Poetry/Experimental Prose

• Waking Dream – a mermaid adventure
• Cotton – a Great Migration meditation
• Drought – a nod to the Pied Piper

Interviews

• Interview on pandemic writing life, Swarthmore College alumni magazine

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more publications  .  .  .

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