The boy in this photo got his first writing desk earlier that day. His mama had been working extra hours at her second job for a month, so he could have somewhere to put his words. When she showed it to him, he cried. She wiped his face, then he buried himself in her arms. Then, this black boy—who’d reimagined worlds for himself on pages—ran to his room and pulled every poem, every story, every secret little sentence from under his bed and placed them carefully in the drawers. All of these words are also for you, mama.

  • IN PRINT

    “When God Splits A Child in Half” Short Fiction // Take The Fruit Anthology (2025) Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

    “Grief is A Lifetime” Short Fiction // Isop Journal (2024)

    “Flowers of Men” Short Fiction // Revolution Magazine (2024)

    “Open Account” Short Fiction // Listen To Your Skin Anthology (2023)

    “The Blood Holds Memory ” Essay // Do Gio Magazine (2023)

    “The Sun Go Down” Short Fiction // Gold Room Anthology (2022)

    “Black Masculinity & Mental Wellness” Essay // Turning Pages Journal (2021)

    “God Bless The Child” Short Fiction // Tamlub Journal (2020)

    “A Summary of Edible Men” Essay // Cabin Magazine (2020)

    “On Broken Kisses” Poem // Total Journal (2020)

    “Gentileschi Glory” Poem // Spoken Magazine (2019)

  • ONLINE

    “Hallelujah” Short Fiction // French Quarter Journal (2026), Winner of the Tennessee Williams Very Short Fiction Prize

    “What Remains” Short Fiction // Blood + Honey (2026)

    "A Time to Tarry" Short Fiction in verse // WOTS magazine (2024)

    “Yard Sale” Micro Fiction // Dillydoun Review (2021) alternate link…site down

    “The Birds Will Tell” Short Fiction // Antenna (2021)

    “The Years That Answered” Short Fiction // Griffel (2021)

  • IN REVISION

    LET’S DO BLACK PEOPLE SHIT is a deeply human collection of short fiction that charts the fragile, ever-shifting landscape of Black life and citizenship in America. Through stories that move between magical realism, crime, romance, dystopia, and mythology, the collection examines how intergenerational trauma, sexual identity, disability, and the pursuit of belonging shape—and sometimes fracture—the Black experience.