PUBLICATIONS

How to Make Love to a Ciguapa, Fantasy, May 2022

The Brainstitcher’s Daughter, Voyage YA Literary Journal, 2021 (first chapter only) *Second Place Winner of Voyage’s Spring 2021 First Chapters Contest judged by NYT Bestselling Author Melissa de la Cruz

Long Live Anacaona Guey, Hyphen Punk, 2021 *nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Hyphen Punk

How to Eat a Mermaid, Mermaids Monthly, 2021

Optic Covenant, Daily Science Fiction, 2020

To Keep a Book Alive, Fourth & Sycamore, 2016

HONORS

Futurescapes 2021 Promising New Writers Award Runner Up

The Writer’s Center Compass Fellowship 2020 Finalist

2011 Governor’s Award for National Service (Maryland)

WORKSHOPS

Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust - Worldbuilding in Fantasy & Science Fiction with Patricia C. Wrede, Winter 2021

Hurston/Wright Foundation Writer’s Week Workshop with Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Summer 2020

Voices of Our Nation (VONA) with Tananarive Due, Summer 2020

SCHOLARSHIPS

Plunkett Scholarship for the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, Fall 2020

MEMBERSHIPS

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, 2022 - 2021

Maryland Writer’s Association, 2019-2020