honors

AWARDS

Won

Finalist

The African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize ~ 2023

Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series in Fiction ~ 2022

Minnesota Author Project ~ 2022

Shortlist

Commonwealth Short Story Prize ~ 2022

Nobrow Short Story Prize ~ 2020

Bristol Short Story Prize ~ 2019

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

Won

Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writer-in-Residence Fellowship ~ 2023

Mercatus Center Don Lavoie Fellowship ~ 2023/2024

Shenandoah Fellowship for BIPOC Editors ~ 2023/2024

1000 Voices Program, Every Woman Treaty ~ 2022

Jacobson Scholar (Hawkinson Fund for Peace and Justice) ~ 2021/2022

Deborah Keenan Poetry Scholarship (Hamline University) ~ 2021

Writer of Color Merit Scholarship (Hamline University) ~ 2020 - 2023

Hubert H. Humphrey (Fulbright) Fellowship ~ 2018/2019

Young African Leaders Initiative ~ 2017

Semi-finalist

Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative ~ 2022

Shortlist

Miles Morland Scholarship ~ 2022

Miles Morland Scholarship ~ 2021

Other Honors

Anoka County Library Featured Author ~ 2023

Tusculum University Writer in Residence ~ 2022

Dreamers Creative Writing Competition (Honorable Mention) ~ 2019