
Personal Essays and Creative Nonfiction
“How to Eat Grits” (A Gathering Together, Fall 2025)
“Rain in Accra (or Closing the Door Like a Coup)” (Good River Review, April 2025)
“Desert: Southern California and the Sahara” (Panorama Journal, March 2024)
“Rain-Soaked Banana Plantations, Quetzal Birds, Garifuna Music” (Isele Magazine, December 2022)
“Swimming Towards Africa” (A Long House, May 2022)
“Black Pride, 1968, and the Godfather of Soul” (Sapphire Hues, December 2021)
“Haiti and the US-Mexico Border” (Pure Slush, September 2021)
“Aunt Jemima, Headwraps, and Hair” (Another Chicago Magazine, June 2021)
“Dear Galactic Living (From the Dystopian Letters)” (LitroNY, July 2020)
“Dear Rap Music” (LitroNY, June 2020)
“Dear Northern Hemisphere” (LitroNY, May 2020)
“Dear Africa” (LitroNY, May 2020)
“Dear Corporate State” (LitroNY, April 2020)
“Dear Pandemic” (LitroNY, April 2020)
“Jim Crow, White Fanaticism, American Fascism” (LitroNY, October 2019)
“Love for Foreigners and Other Foolish Flights of Fancy” (A Gathering Together, Spring 2018)
Poetry
“Damn Darnell,” Migration,” & “I Slip Away Sometime” (Linden Avenue Literary Journal, July 2018)
Book Reviews
“Anguish, Agony, Babylon: On Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon” (LitroNY, November 2023)