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Portfolio of cre·a·tive
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Publications
Poetry
Two Poems in Haunted Passages. Heavy Feather Review. July 11, 2024
"coda" Quarter Notes Magazine 1.1 Spring 2024
"when I take out the picture of my mother" Pleiades: Literature in Context: Special Folio: Silences of War: Erasure from Conflict guest edited by Hadara Bar-Nadav and
Jameelah Lang. February 2023
:"Yes, Andrew, I will read the part of Tituba' Quarterly West October 2022
"The Duck" Voicemail Poems Summer 2022
"cc-tv" The Bitchin Kitch (aka The B'K') July 2021
"b team" Concision Poetry Journal June 2021
"card shop" Train: A Poetry Journal March 2021
"don't try" GASHER JOURNAL Winter 2019 issue. February 2020
"summer thoughts" & Interview contribution. A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the edges of Liberation. Black Table Arts ,Wise Ink & Button Poetry. Feb 2020.
"i go on" Queer Voices of Minnesota: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Eds. Andrea Jenkins, John Medeiros and Lisa Marie Brimmer. Minnesota Historical Society Press. May 2019
"Fifty Years Later And" , "Family Portrait", "A Spell for if We Do Nothing" and "In the Custom of Passing" Twin Cities Pride Magazine. 2019.
Essay
“A Coliseum Reimagined: Transforming the Soul of Downtown Longfellow” McKnight Foundation, 2023.
"Lovespells as Visionary Organizing" Lake Street Stories Project. Pangea World Theatre. Winter 2020.
"Cerca de las Llamas: Apuntes desde la Revuelta de Minneapolis" La Raza Cósmica. Santiago, Chile. Summer 2020.
"Water Justice" Public Art Review, Issue 59. Saint Paul, MN. Winter 2020.
"In Search of Other Mothers' Gardens: On Creative Kinships" Adoption & Culture 7.2. Ohio University Press. Alliance for Adoption Studies and Culture. Winter 2019.
"The Trauma Question" MNArtists.org Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, MN. Summer 2019.
"Storying Pinhook: Representing the Community, the Floods, and the Struggle". Open Rivers Journal. University of Minnesota. Spring 2019.
"A case for this: the (new black) here and now"MNArtists.org Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, MN. Fall 2018.
Editor
Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride. Co-edited with Andrea Jenkins and John Medeiros. Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul, MN. 2019
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Selected Conferences
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"Adoptees Explore M/otherhoods" The Eighth Biennial Conference on Adoption and Culture convened by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture with support of Brown University's English Department. October 2021.
Virtual conversation with Liz Latty, Kimberly McKee, PhD and Shannon Gibney w/ live Q & A
“It’s Complicated”: Writing Poetry from Multiple Subjectivities. Panel. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Portland, OR. 2019.
“Formations: Thinking Kinship through Adoption” Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. Oakland, CA. October 2018.
Presenting Paper: “In Search of Other Mother’s Gardens: Can Creative Kinships Repair the Modern Debt of Transracial Adoptees?”
The Because Black Life Conference. Black Table Arts. Minneapolis, MN. August 2018
Presenting Paper: “Getting Black In Tune: Building Towards Higher Vibrations and Strengthened Solidarities” Minneapolis, MN.
“Ethnicity and Kinship”: The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the
Americas. May 2018
Presenting Paper: "In search of Other Mother’s Gardens: Can Creative Kinships repair the modern debt of Transracial Adoptees?" Graz, Austria.
classroom teaching experience
Composition 1 & 2, Intro to Creative Writing, American Indian, African American, LGBTQ+ and Early American Literatures. etc for Undergraduate Writers and PSEO students across multiple modalities.
Independent Practicum projects graduate level and graduate level critical writing experiences and leadership development outcomes with Master’s level arts & culture leaders and managers.
collaboration
Experience leading and administrating writing workshops, facilitation, and collaboration.
board affiliations
PFund Foundation
PFund Foundation builds equity with LGBTQ+ communities across the Upper Midwest by providing grants and scholarships, developing leaders, and inspiring giving.
Tangible Collective
Holding Space for Black Millenial
Thought & Expression.
fellowships
Nancy J. Blackburn Fellow
Randolph MFA- 2021-23
Writing The Land Fellow
Nature Poets- 2021-22
Graduate Fellow
University of St. Thomas- 2016-18
Givens Artist Fellow
The Givens Foundation for
African American Literature-2009, 2013
Many Voices Fellow
The Playwrights’ Center- 2010
Dease Fellow
University of St. Thomas- 2004-2008