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
Fulbright Summer Institute
University of Bristol: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice
2019
Janet Weis Creative Writing Scholarship
Susquehanna University
2019 -2023
Susquehanna University
2019 -2023