fellowships, residencies & awards
Participant Scholarship in Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
August 2025
Cave Canem Fellow
Cave Canem Foundation
June 2025
Poetry Scholar: Queer Week
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop
June 2025
“When I Was a Boxer” published in The Cincinnati Review
Best New Poets Nomination
April 2025
Poetry Fellowship Finalist
Just Buffalo Poetry Fellowship
April 2025
“When I Was a Boxer”
selected for CLMP Black History Reading List
Feburary 2025
Writing Residency
Civil Society Fellow at Vermont Studio Center
August 2024
“After My Bipolar Diagnosis I Make Several Phone Calls & Everyone Says That Makes Sense“
Pushcart Prize Nomination
December 2023
Fellowship Award
Fulbright Summer Institute
University of Bristol: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice
June 2021 - July 2021
Janet Weis Creative Writing Scholarship
Susquehanna University
August 2019 - May 2023