Prizes & Press
Selected Prizes
HONORS / AWARDS
J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, 2023
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Grant (Artist Corps), 2021
Café Royal Cultural Foundation Literature Grantee, 2021
New York Foundation of the Arts Poetry Fellowship, 2020
92Y/Discovery Poetry Prize, 2019
Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Poetry, 2019
Cave Canem Foundation Fellowship, 2018
Inaugural Palm Beach Poetry Festival Thomas Lux Scholarship, 2018
Lambda Literary Fellowship, 2017
Nancy P. Schnader Academy of American Poets Award, Hofstra University, 2008
SELECTED PRESS
TEXT
Author Interview with Buer Carlie, for Lavender Magazine
Author Interview with Leila Fadel, for NPR’s Morning Edition (By Destinee Adams Leila Fadel Devan Schwartz)
Author Interview for Poets & Writers: Ten Questions for Omotara James (By Staff)
Review of SOMS in the Adroit Journal (By Joanna Acevedo)
Review of SOMS in the Columbia Journal (By Andrew Hu)
Review of SOMS in the Tupelo Quarterly (By Julie Marie Wade)
Starred Review in Library Journal (By Sarah Michaelis)
NYFA Business of Art: Writers on Publishing Part 1
NYFA Business of Art: Writers on Publishing Part 2
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center: 2019 Discovery Prize: Manuscript Notes
Interview with Africa in Dialogue (By Nkateko Masinga)
The Paris Review: 92Y/Discovery Poetry Prize Announcement
Literary Hub: New-Generation African Poets Poetry Feature
Poetry Society of America: In Their Own Words
VIDEO
2017 Lambda Literary Fellows Reading, West Hollywood Public Library, CA
2019 92Y Discovery Prize Reading, 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, NYC
2019 “Promise,” excerpt from 92Y Discovery Prize Reading, NYC
2020 August Amherst Arts Night Remote Poetry Reading w/ Rebecca Hart Olander, Leah Umansky, Remote Event, MA
2021 Minnesota Prison Writer’s Workshop: Before Time Reading Series, Remote Event, MN
2021 The Brooklyn Rail: Radical Poetry Reading with Pamela Sneed, Remote Event. NY
2021 Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology, Promotional Video
2021 Conjuring the Sacred: Poets of the Diaspora sponsored by City Artists Corps Grants & NYFA, Zoom
AUDIO