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fiction . . .

“Man of the House,” Ecotone, 2021
“Daddies and Sons,” The Rumpus, 2021
“What We Knew (The South, c. 1918),” Green Mountains Review Black Voices issue, 2021
“How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell About It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” (reprint), Strange Encounters (Missouri Review Books), 2021
“Family Tree,” Prairie Schooner, 2020
- 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 recipient
- honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2018
“Reign,” Obsidian, 2015
“Leaving Edina,” Kweli, 2014
“Yellow Brick Secrets,” Tidal Basin Review, 2010
- NEA Literature Fellowship recipient
- Tidal Basin Review Editorial Prize recipient & Pushcart Prize nomination
“Forest Blood,” Obsidian, 2007
“Woman Blood,” Women. Period. (Spinsters Ink), 2008
“The Pose,” Just Like a Girl (GirlChild Press), 2008
“SDX,” Warpland, 2004 & 2005
Untitled novel excerpt, Warpland, 2003

“The Slave Route,” The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35 (The Places We’ve Been Books), 2013
“360 Degrees to Africa,” Baobab South African Journal of New Writing, 2009
“Stranger in Elmina,” The Literary Review, 2009
- PALF Africana Creative Nonfiction Award recipient
- honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2010
“The Joke,” Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, 2008
“Oburonyi No More” (reprint), One World, Many Cultures, 7th Ed. (Longman), 2008
“Detour on Nzu,” Potomac Review, 2008
“Surprise at the Castle” and “Ghana Sabor!” Black Renaissance Noire, 2008
“Waiting,” WorldView, 2008
“New Christmas,” Crab Orchard Review, 2007
“Welcome Home,” Babel Fruit, 2007
- Illinois Arts Council Fellowship recipient
“A Question of Tradition,” Transitionsabroad.com, 2007
“Oburonyi No More,” Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press), 2006
“Obruni,” Museum of the African Diaspora’s online Story Project, 2005
“Akwaaba,” Black Arts Quarterly, 2005
“Home Away From Home,” Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity (Third World Press), 2005

“Waking Dream” (reprint), Mermaids Monthly, 2021
“Cotton,” Taint Taint Taint, 2021
“Drought,” FLAPPERHOUSE, 2017
- nominated for inclusion in the 2018 Best of the Net Anthology & Best Small Fictions Anthology
“Waking Dream” (reprint), Black Mermaids: In Vision and Verse, catalog for City Gallery at Waterfront Park exhibition, Mermaids and Merwomen in Black Folklore, 2012
“Lost Kin,” Black Renaissance Noire, 2012
“Waking Dream,” Black Renaissance Noire, 2011