List of Grants, Awards, Fellowships, Scholarships, Residencies, and Workshops
Awards & Honors
- Best New Poets 2022
- 2022 Periplus Fellowship finalist
- The Southern Review’s 2020 James Olney Award for “Home is a Woman”
- Nomination for 2021 Best New Poets for “Home is a Woman”
- Finalist for 2021 Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- Winner of a 2021 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship
- Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week (November 29-December 5, 2021)
Residencies
Grants
- Recipient of the 2022 Mayor’s Individual Artist Award from the Creative Baltimore Fund, a grant from Mayor Brandon Scott, the City of Baltimore, and The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA)
- Recipient of 2021 Poets & Writers’ Open Door Career Advancement Grant
Fellowships
- 2022 Fellow for The Dots Between, a six-month financial coaching program for artists and creatives
- Selected for 2021 WNBA (Women’s National Book Association)’s Authentic Voices Fellowship, non-fiction creative writing
Scholarships
- 2022 AWP Conference and Bookfair Scholarship
- 2022 Maryland Arts Day Scholarship
- Awarded scholarship from The Shipman Agency to attend 2021 Craft Seminar: Revolutionary Poetics with Kaveh Akbar
- 2021 Catapult Scholarship: 4-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Decolonizing Poetry
- Awarded scholarship by White Whale Bookstore for 2020 Non-fiction Workshop: Writing Your Family Tree
- Awarded with scholarship from The Cabin for Daniel Stewart’s 2020 workshop Reading & Writing Poems
Workshops
- Selected for 2021 Hues Foundation Fellowship (poetry)
- Selected for 2021 Tin House Writers Workshop (Fiction)
- Selected for 2021 Kenyon Writers Workshop (Poetry)
- Selected for the 2020 Rari Poetry Workshop, a pan-African Writers Workshop for emerging African and Black poets
Community Service/Literary Citizenship
- Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Panelist, July 2022 – June 2023
- Editor for Artist Employment Initiative panel at Maryland State Arts Council, 2022
- Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, 2022
- Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Awards Panelist, 2022
- Poetry Judge for regional and state competitions for Poetry Out Loud, 2021, 2022
- Volunteer for Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington DC, 2018
