Bio

Publications and Exhibitions

  • “The Dim”, short story,  Jack Straw Writers Anthology, Volume 28, 2024
  • “Time”, The Offing, 2023
  • “As a Black Man, I Refuse to be Pathologized” Electric Literature, 2023
  • “Dear Opportunity, 1945” The Copperfield Review, 2021
  • “Remember the Lake”, Zoetic Press, 2021
  • Excerpts from Allegiance “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” The Georgia Review, Fall Issue 2020
  • “Kitchen”, Anthologized “Home is Where You Queer Your Heart”, Foglifter Press, 2021; Foglifter Literary Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2017
  • “Transitory Floats at the Bottom of the Pool” ENIZAGAM (Oakland School for the Arts), 2014
  • Tenants Group Show, “Somewhere Under the Sea” “Ripple Marks #3” acrylic paintings, The Mills Building, San Francisco, 2010
  • “Camouflage”, poetry chapbook, MaCaHu Press, 2010
  • “The Clear”, short play, Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University’s Committee on Black Performing Arts), 2008
  • “Awakening”, “Locating No”, “Black Hole”, “Compass”, “Whitecap” Poets 11, An Anthology of Poems from the San Francisco Poets 11 Reading Series, 2007
  • “Photic”, “Maser”, poems, New American Writing, Issue 25, 2007
  • “Funk”, poem, Lodestar Quarterly, 2005
  • “Mulch”, poem, The Big Ugly Review, 2005
  • “Theology of a Saint”, “Water Signs”, “Gravity”, “Planitia” Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University’s Committee on Black Performing Arts), 2005
  • Fresh Meat in the Gallery, Transgender Visual Art Group Shows in Association with the National Queer Arts Festival, ODC Theater, Femina Potens Gallery, mixed media, 2004 – 2006

Readings and Speaking Engagements

  • AWP 2023, Millay Arts Panel, excerpt “Dr. Sleep & Me on the Downlow”
  • OneHaas Podcast, Transitioning – private decision with public consequences, 2020
  • Foglifter Press: Queer, Sweet Home; San Francisco Lit Quake Lit Crawl, 2018
  • The Black Woman is God: Assembly of Gods; The African American Art and Cultural Complex, San Francisco, 2018
  • Gender Identity/Gender as Spectrum, UC Berkeley, HAAS School of Business, 2018
  • Transgender panel hosted by Interweave, The Athenian School, Danville, 2018
  • Black Love! Poetry and Performances by Queer Black Artists, Strut, 2017
  • Radar Queer Reading Series, San Francisco Public Library, 2017
  • Foglifter Volume 2, Issue 1 Release Party, Strut, San Francisco, 2017
  • “Trans Action”: Trans Writing as Activism, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, 2017
  • Bay Area Writers Resist, Starline Social Club, Oakland, 2017
  • Lone Glen Reading Series, Oakland, 2016

Residencies & Awards

  • Jack Straw Cultural Center, Writers Program, 2024
  • Atlantic Center for the Arts, Associate Artist Residency #191 with mentor Addae Moon, performance text, October 2023
  • Hurston/Wright Foundation Speculative Fiction Summer Fellow, “Word Building for Worldbuilding” with Nisi Shawl, 2023
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow, Millay Arts, 2021
  • Cave Canem Poetry Fellow, retreat attendee: 2012, 2023, 2024
  • Recipient Cultural Equity Grant, Individual Artist Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, FY 2010-2011
  • Playground, Writers Pool at Berkeley Rep, 2007-2008 season