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

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