Poetry
publications
Contributor
Anthology of Chicago
Cave Canem 2008 Anthology
Consequence Magazine (finalist, 2014 Prize in Poetry)
Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! (anthology)
Reverie
Rhino Magazine (2015; 2018 Founder’s Prize)
Torch Magazine
Trigger Warning (anthology)
Collections
More Than a Notion: Tracing the birth and growth of a Black marriage, real and imagined
Sense Memory: Dedicated to those strong enough to speak up; to those brave enough to keep trying
Plays
Synopses of these and other plays are available on New Play Exchange
Bump
Workshop: Chicago Dramatists’ Out The Box Festival
Dopp Kitt in the Uncanny Valley
Workshop: Stage Left Leapfest
Equal and Terrifying
Workshop: Shattered Globe Theatre’s Global Playwrights Series
When Given the Choice, Bleed
Workshops: Rivendell Theater’s Solo Voices festival; National Black Theatre’s Soul Series Lab Micro-Development Session; Goodman Theatre’s Future Labs
Last Will
Workshop: Mad Cow Theatre’s Women’s Voices play festival
Real ID
Commissioned by Chicago Children’s Theatre
Borne Dust
Workshop: Windy City Playhouse; Chicago Dramatists
in absentia
Readings: Crossroads Theatre Company; Plowshares Theatre Company; MPAACT (Ma'at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre)
Landing
Reading: Chicago Dramatists
(Nine)
Workshop: Congo Square Theatre Company’s August Wilson New Play Initiative
Tour Guides and Like Bread (contributor)
Guild Literary Complex’s Poetry Performance Incubator
Fellowships, Residencies & Awards
Residency, Stage Left Theatre
Residency, Activate: Midwest New Play Festival
Finalist, Activate: Midwest New Play Festival
Fellow, Cave Canem (poetry)
Tutterow Fellowship, Chicago Dramatists (playwriting)
Semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Residency, Ragdale (playwriting)
Finalist, Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit
Finalist, Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwrights