Publications & Exhibitions:
our weary talons; chapbook (Foglifter Press 2023)
Congo, seen from the heavens, Okra & I’ll do it; poems (EcoTheo Review 2022)
portrait of Lubumbashi, DRC & psalm for the 15 million, poems (Rappahannock Review 2021)
Golden, Solo Show, commissioned by Root Slam (MLK Cafe, 2018)
Disorder, Collaborative Show (Sun Gallery 2016)
Memories of nobody, short story (Berkeley Fiction Review, 2017)
To You: In the tradition of izibongo, prose (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2020)
Cadenza, composition, for Dennis Kim (debut Soka Performing Arts Center 2020)
An Old Hymn, composition (debut UC Berkeley 2019)
Awards & Fellowships:
Winner, Evaristo Prize for African Poetry (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Winner, Start a Riot! chapbook contest (Foglifter Press 2023)
Starshine and Clay Fellowship (Cave Canem + EcoTheo Review 2022)
Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellowship (Brooklyn Poets 2021)
Poetry and the Senses Fellowship (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2019-2020)
Residency with Shahzad Ismaily (Atlantic Center for the Arts 2021)
Grand-slam champion, (Oakland Poetry Slam 2018)
1st place, Sudden Fiction Contest (Berkeley Fiction Review 2017)
Key-note speaker, Houston Arts for Recovery Innovation Expo & Symposium (2017)
Semi-Finalist, Cave Canem Poetry Prize (2021)
Semi-Finalist, National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2022)
Feature, Foglifter Intergenerational Reading (2021)
Feature, Quiet Lightning (2017)
Feature CalSLAM (2017)
Best-writing as a team, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational
Career & Experience:
Creative writing teacher, Leap Arts Education
Teaching Artist, Youth Arts Exchange
Emerging Poet Mentor, Youth Speaks
Judge, Alameda Youth Poet Laureate
Judge, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate
Publication's Coordinator, Berkeley Student Cooperative
Team member: 1x Brave New Voices, 2x College Union Poetry Slam Invitational
Affiliate Partner, Twitch
Art Teacher, UC Berkeley Splash
Artist intern, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
our weary talons; chapbook (Foglifter Press 2023)
Congo, seen from the heavens, Okra & I’ll do it; poems (EcoTheo Review 2022)
portrait of Lubumbashi, DRC & psalm for the 15 million, poems (Rappahannock Review 2021)
Golden, Solo Show, commissioned by Root Slam (MLK Cafe, 2018)
Disorder, Collaborative Show (Sun Gallery 2016)
Memories of nobody, short story (Berkeley Fiction Review, 2017)
To You: In the tradition of izibongo, prose (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2020)
Cadenza, composition, for Dennis Kim (debut Soka Performing Arts Center 2020)
An Old Hymn, composition (debut UC Berkeley 2019)
Awards & Fellowships:
Winner, Evaristo Prize for African Poetry (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Winner, Start a Riot! chapbook contest (Foglifter Press 2023)
Starshine and Clay Fellowship (Cave Canem + EcoTheo Review 2022)
Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellowship (Brooklyn Poets 2021)
Poetry and the Senses Fellowship (UC Berkeley Arts and Research Center 2019-2020)
Residency with Shahzad Ismaily (Atlantic Center for the Arts 2021)
Grand-slam champion, (Oakland Poetry Slam 2018)
1st place, Sudden Fiction Contest (Berkeley Fiction Review 2017)
Key-note speaker, Houston Arts for Recovery Innovation Expo & Symposium (2017)
Semi-Finalist, Cave Canem Poetry Prize (2021)
Semi-Finalist, National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2022)
Feature, Foglifter Intergenerational Reading (2021)
Feature, Quiet Lightning (2017)
Feature CalSLAM (2017)
Best-writing as a team, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational
Career & Experience:
Creative writing teacher, Leap Arts Education
Teaching Artist, Youth Arts Exchange
Emerging Poet Mentor, Youth Speaks
Judge, Alameda Youth Poet Laureate
Judge, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate
Publication's Coordinator, Berkeley Student Cooperative
Team member: 1x Brave New Voices, 2x College Union Poetry Slam Invitational
Affiliate Partner, Twitch
Art Teacher, UC Berkeley Splash
Artist intern, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative