fellowships, residencies & awards


2025


2025 Book Prize Finalist
Center for African American Poetry & Poetics

Participant Scholarship in Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

First Year Cave Canem Fellow
Cave Canem Foundation

Poetry Scholar: Queer Week
Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop

Emerging Voices Fellow  (declined)
2025 Virtual Lambda Literary Retreat 

“When I Was a Boxer” published in The Cincinnati Review
Best New Poets Nomination

Poetry Fellowship Finalist
Just Buffalo Poetry Fellowship


“When I Was a Boxer”
Selected for CLMP Black History Reading List


2024

2023



2021

Fellowship Award
Fulbright Summer Institute
University of Bristol: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice



2019

Janet Weis Creative Writing Scholarship
Susquehanna University 
2019 -2023