Fiction:

  • “Black Girl Liminal” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2023

    • What if a rabbit offered you magical power so long as you remained a nobody?

  • “Rooted/Indigenous” and “Black Powerful” sections in Natasha Marin’s Black Powerful, 2022

    • A chorus of Black Voices explain what Power and Indigeneity mean to them.

  • “Ratchet Clones from the Next Dimension,” decomp, 2022

    • You can take a yupster out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of a yupster.

  • “Birdland,” Pumpernickel House #1, 2022

    • Maybe the next best thing to being the Chosen One is becoming a Harlem saxophonist.

  • “Yearning,” Strange Horizons, 2021

    • Time-travel via campfire to a future so far-off that maybe wounds are healed.

  • “Take Your Child to Work Day Report,” in PANK, June 2017

    • A baby-activist of a girl shadows her time clerk mother for a class report.

  • “Non-Prescription” in Err: Volume One

    • A story of a father, a daughter full of comics, and his non-prescription glasses.

  • “Clear Shelter” in Mizna: The Winter Issue, Intersectionality, 2015

    • A hijabi’s path to uncovering, told in seven veils.

  • “Crossing the Mississippi” in Revolver’s Undertow project, 2015

    • Hearing voices runs in the family and night parades run through the night.

  • “L'intero Marsello” in Errata IX, 2015

    • I need help remembering this movie I saw once…

  • “Reticence and Pallor” in the Redlands Review, 2011

    • I awoke one day and all the skin colors had been scrambled…

  • “The Meter” in the Redlands Review, 2010

    • Interviewing the widow of the Happiness Meter’s inventor

Poetry

  • “Extended Family” in Mizna Volume 18.1, June 2017

    • I feel fellowship with every kind of Maya and Sumayyah, kinship with Omars, Amirs, Aminah's, Muhammads…

Creative Nonfiction:

  • “My First Ride,” PULP, August 2019

    • An erotic history of my bikes (who are all named after philosophers).

  • “The Ghost of Welcome Arnold,” wildness, February 2019

    • Becoming homeless even just once can haunt you with dehumanization.

  • “Weekly Specials,” Water~Stone Review, November 2018

    • The stages of life as told through grocery store flyers.

  • “What I Learned from My Father, the Pink-Collar Worker,” Catapult, August 2018

    • My dad was a Black male social worker and my dad is my hero.

  • “Sufjan Stevens as Family Saint” NAT BRUT, May 2018

    • I make romantic partners read this to better understand me. One day, I’ll revise it to be more gay.

  • “Black Men on the Moon,” MN Artists, March 2018

    • A meditation on the masc & male Black trailblazers I admire.

Journalism: