Award-winning journalist & audio producer, my reporting has appeared at MSNBC, Poynter, NPR, WHYY, Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom’s podcast Hear to Slay & on your grandmother’s radio. I am the recipient of a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Fellowship, an International Women’s Media Foundation Gwen Ifill Fellowship, & I was selected as an AIR Media Scholar.
Poet & writer, I archive moments of intimacy between Black women. I write about insecurity of historical archives & insecurity as a feeling that connects us to our most powerful desires.
My poems have been published in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. I am a recipient of a Watering Hole Fellowship and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in creative writing.
I formerly served as a National Student Poet, the nation's highest honor for young poets presenting original work. I was invited to the White House by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to garner my award.
My debut poetry chapbook is entitled Reporting from the Belly of the Night.
I believe not in the boat that floated me here, but what I’ll do with the water.
