Publications & Exhibitions:
Congo, seen from the heavens, 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:
Evaristo Prize for African Poetry; Winner (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Sillerman First Book Prize; Finalist (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Start a Riot! chapbook contest, Winner (Foglifter Press 2023)
Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, Semi-Finalist (Gasher Press 2023)
Starshine and Clay; Fellowship (Cave Canem 2022)
Summer Fellow, Fellowship (Brooklyn Poets 2021)
Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist (Cave Canem 2021)
NFSPS Board Award, Semi-Finalist (National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2022)
Poetry and the Senses, Fellowship (UC Berkeley Arts & Research Center 2017-2018)
Grand-slam champion (Oakland Poetry Slam 2018)
Sudden Fiction Contest, Winner (Berkeley Fiction Review 2017)
Key-note speaker, Houston Arts for Recovery Innovation Expo & Symposium (2017)
Feature, Foglifter Intergenerational Reading (2021)
Feature, Quiet Lightning (2017)
Feature CalSLAM (2017)
Best-writing as a team, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (2017)
Residencies:
SAVVY Contemporary Museum, Berlin (2024)
Atlantic Center for the Arts with Shahzad Ismaily (2021)
Education:
Bennington College (MFA candidate in Creative Writing)
University of California, Berkeley (studies in Art Practice)
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)
Art Teacher, UC Berkeley Splash
Artist intern, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
Congo, seen from the heavens, 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:
Evaristo Prize for African Poetry; Winner (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Sillerman First Book Prize; Finalist (African Poetry Book Fund 2023)
Start a Riot! chapbook contest, Winner (Foglifter Press 2023)
Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, Semi-Finalist (Gasher Press 2023)
Starshine and Clay; Fellowship (Cave Canem 2022)
Summer Fellow, Fellowship (Brooklyn Poets 2021)
Cave Canem Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist (Cave Canem 2021)
NFSPS Board Award, Semi-Finalist (National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2022)
Poetry and the Senses, Fellowship (UC Berkeley Arts & Research Center 2017-2018)
Grand-slam champion (Oakland Poetry Slam 2018)
Sudden Fiction Contest, Winner (Berkeley Fiction Review 2017)
Key-note speaker, Houston Arts for Recovery Innovation Expo & Symposium (2017)
Feature, Foglifter Intergenerational Reading (2021)
Feature, Quiet Lightning (2017)
Feature CalSLAM (2017)
Best-writing as a team, College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (2017)
Residencies:
SAVVY Contemporary Museum, Berlin (2024)
Atlantic Center for the Arts with Shahzad Ismaily (2021)
Education:
Bennington College (MFA candidate in Creative Writing)
University of California, Berkeley (studies in Art Practice)
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)
Art Teacher, UC Berkeley Splash
Artist intern, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative