ACCOLADES
2023
Runner-up (fiction)
Poets & Writers - Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
July
Writer-in-residence
The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
May (residency dates TBD - late 2023/early 2024)
Winner - 2023 Iron Horse Book Prize - The Birthright of Sons
Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press
January
2022
COURAGE TO WRITE Grant Recipient
The de Groot Foundation
July
First Place Prize in Fiction - “Knots”
Havik anthology (Las Positas College)
May
“Break Up with Corporate” Grant Recipient
Wethos
March
2021
Longlist - BIPOC Creative Writing Scholarship
Gotham Writers’ Workshop
December
2020
Semifinalist - Diverse Voices Screenwriting Contest
WeScreenplay
May
2019
Quarterfinalist - Teen Movie Contest
Color Creative
October
2018
First Round Select - Episodic Lab Screenwriting Contest
MACRO
September
APPEARANCES
Review: The Birthright of Sons
The Midwest Book Review
2024
The best books capturing the complexity of the queer experience
Shepherd.com
2024
Dear Gotham Letter
Gotham Writer’s Workshop - February newsletter
2024
The Black Male Natural Hair Movement - Video Essay
Added to Cardiff and Vale College’s Anti-Racist Curriculum (Wales)
2023
My Entrepreneur Story
GoSolo
2022
Subject Matter Expert - “Media Writing Essentials”
The New School x Rolling Stone (Yellowbrick)
2021
“Tea AND Shade To Those Who Co-Opt Black Gay Culture”
Strange Fruit podcast (NPR)
September 9, 2017
MEMBERSHIPS
Board Member, Media & Communications
Polk County Heritage Gallery, 2021 - 2022