Curriculum Vitae
Awards & Recognition
2020-2021 Afro Urban Society Lit From The Black Fellow
2020 Pink Door Fellow (rescheduled due to COVID-19)
2020 Sunday Kind of Love Busboys & Poets Featured Writer – (rescheduled due to COVID-19)
2018 Words Beats & Life Poetry Feature
2018 Grow With Google Udacity Developer Scholarship
2017 Bloc.io Scholarship
2016 LAMBDA Literary Young Adult Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow
2015 Pink Door Fellow
Work
2020
Lit From The Black Lighting Design Fellow, Afro Urban Society,
8/2020 – 2/2021
Co-Playwright with Amber Smithers, Hope For The Holidays, hosted and performed by Adventure Theatre over Zoom on 7/26/20
Playwright, Endings Don’t Always Mean Disaster: 1 Minute Play in response to COVID-19, hosted and performed by One Minute Play Festival over Zoom on 4/17/20
Panelist, Disease and Disability: Using Poetry to Reveal and Empower, Split This Rock Festival (canceled due to COVID-19)
2019
Editor, YesYes Books
Dog Trainer, PetCo
Accessibility Coordinator, A-Camp XI
2018
Guest Experience Specialist, PetCo
Poetry Reader, OutWrite
Worldbuilding in LGBTQIA+ Panelist, OutWriteDCWe Sweat Honeysuckle Advisor, Winter Tangerine
Sing That Like Dovesong Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
Camp Counselor, Autostraddle
Singing Songs Crooning Comets Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
2017
Hollows Shout The Mountain Down Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine and Monstering Mag
We Sweat Honeysuckle Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
Judge, Fourth Annual Words Beats & Life DMV Grand Slam Finals
2016
Orchids without Attached Thighs Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
Summer Session Two Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
Sing That Like Dovesong Workshop Advisor, Winter Tangerine
2015
Intern, Aplastic Anemia and MDS Foundation
2014
Food Production, Panera Bread, (- September 2018)
Publications
2020
7 Books For Curious Kids To Read – Book Riot
[Untitled] – Split This Rock, The Quarry
2019
Going Back Outside After The Streetlights Come On – Autostraddle
Monday Roundtable: Into The Wild – Autostraddle
Lesbian Visibility Day 2019 Roundtable: Celebrating Our History and Our Future – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: Happy National Poetry Month, Let’s Share Our Favorite Poems! – Autostraddle
The Harassment of Young M.A. and Including Black Butches When We Talk About Violence – Autostraddle
The Black Lesbian Movie Project – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: I Wanna Know Who You Keep As Family – Autostraddle
Birthmarks Roundtable– Autostraddle
Our Worst Birthdays Roundtable– Autostraddle
How Could I Forget? Roundtable – Autostraddle
The Black Lesbian Movie Project – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: I Wanna Know Who You Keep As Family – Autostraddle
To Grandmother’s House We Go, oh this is gonna hurt – Crooked Arrow Press
What’s Your Age Again? Roundtable – Autostraddle
I Learned It By Watching You Roundtable – Autostraddle
Our Favorite Mistakes – Autostraddle
Reflections on Being 19 From 2019 – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: A Modest Proposal That Pet Store Are The New Queer Meet-Up Spots in 2019, Do You Agree? – Autostraddle
Change Is Good Roundtable – Autostraddle
New Year Open Thread: Let’s Shape 2019 With Our Words Roundtable – Autostraddle
The Style Icons Who Inspired Our Gay Style – Autostraddle
Our First Bras – Autostraddle
Still Holding On Roundtable – Autostraddle
The First Queer People Who Pinged Our gaydars With Their Style Roundtable – Autostraddle
Our Worst Haircuts Roundtable – Autostraddle
The Board Games We Never Lose Roundtable – Autostraddle
Since You’ve Been Gone Roundtable – Autostraddle
How We Feel About Being Fat Roundtable– Autostraddle
Our Favorite LGBTQ Historical Figures Roundtable – Autostraddle
2018
Forgiven, But Not Forgotten Roundtable – Autostraddle
ROOM 25: I Swear Noname Look So Regal – Autostraddle
Conversation With My Body – Antinarrative Journal
The Things We Did For the Money We Needed To Survive Roundtable – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: Which Hill Will You Insufferably Die On? – Autostraddle
What’s Your Relationship Kryptonite? Roundtable – Autostraddle
Five Questions With Alexis Smithers – OutwriteDC
A Story In Parts – Jaded Ibis Press
PERSONALS App Brings An Old School Dyke Dating Format Into A hot New Future, Thanks Instagram – Autostraddle
Look At Our Stuff (We Collect), Isn’t It Neat? Roundtable – Autostraddle
Queer Culture We Just Can’t Get Into Roundtable – Autostraddle
Nervous About A-Camp? Let’s Do Some Grounding – Autostraddle
Our Favorite LGBTQ Novels – Autostraddle
Kansas “Adoption Protection” Bill Protects No One, Hurts LGBT Families, Will Become Law Anyway – Autostraddle
Our First Protests Roundtable – Autostraddle
How Much Do You Know About Basketball[…]? – Autostraddle
These Are The LGBTQ Movies That Destroyed Us Emotionally Roundtable – Autostraddle
Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable – Autostraddle
Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities – Autostraddle
“We Exist:Beyond the Binary” Is a Sincere, Open Documentary About Gender – Autostraddle
Introverts and Extroverts and Our Myers-Briggs Personality Types – Autostraddle
The Real and Fictional Couple Who Inspired Our Very First Relationship Goals – Autostraddle
pandled hell – my first bitsy room
100 Of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack – Autostraddle
A+ Roundtable: The Sex We Just Can’t Get In To – Autostraddle
A+ Roundtable: Our First Time Watching Porn – Autostraddle
A+ Roundtable: Internalized Homophobia and Other Endearing Forms of Low-Key Self-Hatred – Autostraddle
Monday Roundtable: Our Most Incorrect Childhood Beliefs – Autostraddle
Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite Outfits – Autostraddle
Black History Month Roundtable: Imagining Our Bright Bold Black Queer Futures – Autostraddle
Black History Month Roundtable: What Does Queering Black History Mean To You? – Autostraddle
A Holy Theatre – The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
Friday Open Thread: The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Live – Autostraddle
Are We Your (Enneagram) Type? Roundtable – Autostraddle
They Would Have Never Guessed Roundtable – Autostraddle
What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy? Roundtable – Autostraddle
Very Superstitious, Writing’s On The Wall Roundtable – Autostraddle
A Manifesto For Everything I Create – Manifesto Jam
2017
Friday Open Thread: Impossible Things – Autostraddle
Our Personal Perfect Perfect Moments 2017 Roundtable – Autostraddle
When’s The Last Time You Cried? Roundtable – Autostraddle
What Kind Of Bitch Are You? Roundtable – Autostraddle
Musicals Won’t Save The World But “The Prom†Is Gonna Try Anyway – Autostraddle
All About Our Mental Health Roundtable – Autostraddle
TV Shows We’re Watching to Escape This Nightmare World Roundtable – Autostraddle
Friday Open Thread: Everything Coming Up Spooky – Autostraddle
The Underwear We Wear Roundtable – Autostraddle
AM/PM: Sandwiches For Breakfast – Autostraddle
QTPOC Roundtable: Queer Anthem Playlist – Autostraddle
Monday Roundtable: I Was Not Myself Those Days – Autostraddle
Masculine-Of-Center Roundtable: How We Do It and What It Means To Us – Autostraddle
5 Reasons You Should See “Girls’ Trip†(Again) This Weekend – Autostraddle
QTPOC Roundtable: TV and Movie Characters That Made Us Feel Seen – Autostraddle
The Holy Theatre Speaks (after Kiki Petrosino) + interview – The Shade Journal Spotlight Issue: Seed
Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Conâ€, Which Changed Our Lives – Autostraddle
Mannish Tongues by jayy dodd (Review)– Monstering
14 Music Videos That Confirmed My Sexuality – Autostraddle
the trinity speaks hot lemonade – pnkprl
I Never Meant for My Hair to Be the Way Back to the Lighthouse –Autostraddle
I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadijah Queen (Review) – Winter Tangerine
black + mentally ill + trauma + nonbinary or i do exist and you can’t change that (excerpt) – &thriving anthology, glo worm press
Tell Me Your Diamonds (excerpt) – Emerge: 2016 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Anthology
In Defense of Helga G. Patacki – Shadow Map Anthology
Child, Thou Art Loosed – Freezeray Poetry
One Act Play In Which We Review Dalton Day’s Exit, Pursued – Monstering
2016
You Came Out Again & It’s Lookin Like This Time It’ll Stick– Quntfront Magazine
A Spoonful of Sugar – wusgood.black
A Nightmare After Pulse – Glass: Poetry
In Defense of Helga G. Patacki – Up the Staircase Quarterly
O, Ye of Little Faith – Margins Magazine
Names – BE ABOUT IT Zine
Untitled – Burn Something Zine
Excerpt From Untitled in Genre Fiction (video) – Lambda Literary
Poetry Everywhere You Look: Bill Hader’s Interview with Hazlitt, “Empathy Implicates You” – Words Dance
Subject: A List For When You Think It Might Happen Again Re: Work – Rising Phoenix Press
Doubt – Rising Phoenix Press
Q (1) – Rising Phoenix Press
Poetry Everywhere You Look: Welcome to Night Vale Blackout Poetry – Words Dance
2015
Answers – ScAR (Self care After Rape)
Sway This Way Review: The Pulp vs. The Throne by Carrie Lorig – Words Dance
Cypher (Explicit) – Words Dance
Poetry as Church – Words Dance
On Disrupting the Silence: Part 2 – Words Dance
On Disrupting the Silence: Part 1 – Words Dance
Stuff I Read When the Days Aren’t Going So Good – Words Dance
The Dance Interview Series with Brenna Twohy – Words Dance
What to Read or Listen to After the Nightmare – Words Dance
From Sam after The Babadook and Carrie after The Blood/To: Their Mothers – Freezeray Poetry
Sway This Way Review: Monozygotic Codependent by Stephanie Bryant Anderson – Words Dance
I Stole You a Poem But It’s Really Me Asking You To Watch Movies With Me – Words Dance
Sway This Way Review: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine – Words Dance
19 Poems to Combat the Stigma Around Mental Health – Words Dance
Sunday Family Dinner – THEEEEL
Education
2020
Joy-First Drafting: A.E. Osworth, a seven-week first draft novel writing course with A.E. Osworth and nine other students
Penning My Pieces: How To Piece Together Memoir Essays From The Puzzle Called Life, an eight-week creative nonfiction workshop, generated seven longform pieces and performed two essays, with Nicole Shawan Junior through Roots. Wounds. Words.
Virtual Dog Training During The Pandemic, a virtual seminar with Ines McNeil of The Modern Dog Trainer
Dog Training and Coronavirus: How to Prepare, a virtual seminar with Ines McNeil of The Modern Dog Trainer
The Slow Novel Lab with Nina LaCour, drafted novel with group and mentor over six weeks
Art of Attention with Claire Schwartz, drafted five poems, and discussed and dissected craft, form, and politics through assignments and group meetings over six weeks
2019
Animal Emotions with Karolina Westlund, studied animal behavior through ten online modules
2018
MasterClass with Shonda Rhimes, watched and participated in Shonda Rhimes’ curriculum on television writing
I Survived The Fire, Now What? hosted and led by poet and educator, Crystal Valentine, wrote poetry with a group for four weeks
Black Hogwarts, hosted and led by wusgood.black, wrote poetry with a group under Hufflepuff Headmaster, Brittany Rogers
Grow With Google Developer Program through Udacity
2017
Web Development Student through Bloc.io (Present)
In Surreal Life hosted and led by musician and poet, Shira Erlichman, wrote poetry with group for thirty-one days
AwQward Camp: A Li’l Laughing Color hosted by Capturing Fire, comedy writing workshop with Chelsea Shorte
AwQward Camp: Mystical Manifestos hosted by Capturing Fire, writing and meditation workshop with Dane Edidi
Intro to AwQward Camp: Diving Into the Brownness of Me hosted by Capturing Fire, theatre & writing workshop with Regie Cabico & J Mase III
Fleshing It Out hosted by Capturing Fire, movement & writing workshop with writer, Sonya Renee
Interview with Shonda Rhimes, hosted by the National Book Festival
Speakeasy Project: Session I hosted by The Blueshift Journal, studied poetry for four weeks in a group led by poet & activist, Christopher Soto (Loma)
2016
Writing From the Queer Heart hosted by LitReactor, studied creative nonfiction for four weeks in a group led by artist & writer, Cooper Lee Bombardier
In Surreal Life hosted and led by musician and poet, Shira Erlichman, wrote poetry with group for thirty-one days
Emerging Writers Program hosted by LAMBDA Literary, studied genre (Young Adult) fiction in group led by award-winning author, Benjamin Alire Sáenz for seven days
From The Black Arts Movement to Cave Canem: A Masterclass in Children’s Literature, hosted by The Library of Congress, Cave Canem, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and We Need Diverse Books
2015
We Sweat Honeysuckle hosted by Winter Tangerine, studied poetry in group with LGBTQIA writers
So This Is Madnes_s_ hosted by and led by Shira Erlichman, studied and created poetry for two months in weekly one-on-one sessions
Pink Door Retreat hosted and led by award-winning poet, Rachel McKibbens, studied and created poetry with women and nonbinary writers of color for four days
2011
Academy of the Holy Cross received high school diploma in 2011
*Watch Me Work is the tagline of the WNBA
