Publications
Books
• THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SAY OUR NAME, self-published, 2024
on god, Candor Arts, 2021
• learning rhythm, Flowered Concrete Press, 2017
Anthologies
• Revise The Psalm: Works Celebrating the Writings of Gwendolyn Brooks, “When Racism Dies,” edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana, Curbside Press, 2017
Selected Literary Journals
• The Los Angeles Review, “In Defense of Genius”, 2019
• Mikrokosmos Journal, “For Imia / A Song” 2019
• Meridian, two poems, 2018
• Crab Orchard Review, “Question #7,” 2018
• Salt Hill Journal, Foli“Ghost Riders,” 2018
• cream city review, two poems, 2018
Solo & Group Exhibitions
2020 god gives rest / not sleep, Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL
2020 Tracing Faults, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL
2019 on god, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL
2019 Survey 1, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2019 Moment in Time, Art on Sedgwick, Chicago, IL
2019 Thrown Stone, Spitten Image, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2019 RGB, Fredericks & Mae’s, Brooklyn, NY
2017 our duty to fight, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2017 Hot Seven, Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2016 As We See It: Perspectives of Washington Park and Englewood Youth, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 Connecting the Simple Good: USA and Tanzania Photography Exhibition, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Awards/Honors
2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award, Winner (selected by Douglas Manuel)
2019 30 Writers to Watch, Honoree (selected by Guild Literary Complex)
2018 Press 53 Award for Poetry, Finalist (selected by Tom Lombardo)
2018 Mikrokosmos Journal Poetry Contest, Finalist (selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher)
2018 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, Finalist (selected by Ocean Vuong)
2015-2016 Poetry Slam Inc., Grand Slam Champion, Chicago, IL
Residencies
2021 Ragdale Residency Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL
2020 Chicago Artist Coalition, HATCH Project, Chicago, IL
2020 Elastic Arts, Dark Matter Residency, Chicago, IL
2018 Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity, Writing Studio, Alberta, Canada
2016-2018 Poetry Center of Chicago, Hands On Stanza Artist Residency, Chicago, IL
Education
• Southern Illinois University; Carbondale, IL
Communication Studies, M.A.
• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Sociology, B.A.