F e l l o w s h i p s 
R e s i d e n c i e s
H o n o r s 
2026 Participant in Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

2025 Writers Grant Recipient
PEN America

2025 Individual Artist Grant Recipient
Cave Canem Foundation 

2025 Book Prize Finalist 
Center for African American Poetry & Poetics

2025 Participant Scholarship in Poetry
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

2025 Summer Workshop Poetry Scholar: Queer Week
Fine Arts Work Center 

2025 First Year Fellow
Cave Canem Foundation

2025 Emerging Voices Fellow (declined)
Virtual Lambda Literary Retreat

Nomination for “When I Was a Boxer” in The Cincinnati Review

Best New Poets Anthology


2025 Poetry Particpiant (declined)
Tin House Summer Workshop

2025 Poetry Fellowship Finalist

Just Buffalo Poetry Fellowship


“When I Was a Boxer” in The Cincinnati Review  
CLMP Black History Reading List


2024 Civil Society Fellowship & Writing Residency
Vermont Studio Center


2024 Writing Workshop Fellowship (declined)
The Watering Hole Retreat

Nomination for “After My Bipolar Diagnosis I Make Several Phone Calls & Everyone Says That Makes Sense” in Torch Literary Arts

Pushcart Prize Anthology

2021 Fellowship Award
Fulbright Summer Institute, University of Bristol: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice

2019-2023 Janet Weis Creative Writing Scholarship
Susquehanna University



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