CV

 

  • The Codex of Narma, play, The National Queer Theater staged reading, July 2025
  • The Ephemera Collector, a novel, Liveright/W.W. Norton, April 2025
  • Queer Rain: Reflections on James Baldwin’s Untitled, essay, Gay and Lesbian Review, April 2025
  • Diss-placed: Wildfires and the Loss of a Family Home, essay, The Nerd Daily, April 2025
  • The Dim, short story, Jack Staw Cultural Center Fellows anthology, March 2025
  • The Signal, hybrid poem/short story, Callaloo Journal, February 2025
  • Time, cross-genre, The Offing, 2023
  • As a Black Trans Man, I Refuse to be Pathologized, essay, Electric Literature, May 2023
  • Dear Opportunity, 1945, poem, The Copperfield Review, April 2021
  • Kitchen, poem, Foglifter Literary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2017, anthologized Home is Where You Queer Your Heart, Foglifter Press, 2021
  • Chorus of Raids at Night, Chorus of Battles at Dawn, Chorus of Peace at Dusk, Chorus of Shame at Midnight, To-Do-List Theater Nurse, poems, The Georgia Review, Fall 2020
  • Transitory Floats at the Bottom of the Pool, poem, Enizagam 2014
  • Camouflage, poetry chapbook, MaCaHu Press, 2010
  • The Clear, short play, Black Arts Quarterly, 2008
  • Photic, Maser, poems, New American Writing, Issue 25, 2007
  • Awakening, Locating No, Black Hole, Compass, White Cap, poems, Poets 11 Anthology, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 2007
  • Water Signs, Gravity, Planitia, poems, Black Arts Quarterly, 2005
  • Funk, poem, Lodestar Quarterly, 2005
  • Mulch, poem, The Big Ugly Review, 2005

Other

  • Semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill National Playwright Conference, 2025
  • Jack Straw Cultural Center Writing Fellow, 2024
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts, Associate Artist Residency #191 with mentor Addae Moon, performance text development, October 2023
  • Cave Canem Poetry Fellow: 2012, 2023, 2024
  • Hurston/Wright Foundation Speculative Fiction Fellow, 2023
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Millay Arts Creative Fellow; Millay Arts Residency, Vincent Prize, 2021
  • Cultural Equity Grant, Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, FY 2010-2011
  • PlayGround at Berkeley Rep, Writers Pool, 2007-2008 season

Education

  • MFA, Creative Writing, concentration playwriting, San Francisco State University
  • MBA, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  • BAFA, Studio Arts, University of Southern California