Recognition & Press
Accolades
Winner - 2023 Book Prize
Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press
January 2023
Courage to Write Grant Recipient
The de Groot Foundation
July 2022
“Break Up with Corporate” Grant Recipient
Wethos
March 2022
Longlist - BIPOC Creative Writing Scholarship
Gotham Writers’ Workshop
December 2021
Semifinalist - Diverse Voices Screenwriting Contest
WeScreenplay
May 2020
Quarterfinalist - Teen Movie Contest
Color Creative
October 2019
First Round Select - Episodic Lab Screenwriting Contest
MACRO
September 2018
Appearances
My Entrepreneur Story
GoSolo
2022
Subject Matter Expert - “Media Writing Essentials”
The New School x Rolling Stone (Yellowbrick)
2021
“Tea AND Shade To Those Who Co-Opt Black Gay Culture”
Strange Fruit podcast (NPR)
September 9, 2017
Memberships
Board Member, Media & Communications
Polk County Heritage Gallery, 2021 - 2022