2024 AWARDS/RECOGNITION

  • Winner of the 2024 Ohio Book Award in Poetry | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Finalist for the 2024 Heartland Booksellers Award | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Finalist for the 2024 Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • 2024 Honor Book for Poetry | Black Caucus of the American Library Association | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Shortlisted for the 2024 Pattis Family Chicago Book Award | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

2023 AWARDS/RECOGNITION

  • 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow

  • Finalist for the 2023 Julie Suk Award | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Winner of the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award | for I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

  • Semifinalist | Poetry Prize (Crab Creek Review) | for “Starved” and “Sculpture Study #7”

2022 AWARDS/RECOGNITION

  • International Merit Award Winner | International Poetry Competition (Atlanta Review) | for “Sculpture Study #4”

2021 AWARDS/RECOGNITION

  • 1st Place Winner | Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize (Beloit Poetry Journal) | for “Tell It Like a Movie | Rewind”

  • Semifinalist | Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize (Beloit Poetry Journal) | for “Shutter”

  • Honorable Mention | Tom Howard / Margaret Reid Poetry Contest | for “Nikon Coolpix, S21”

  • Honorable Mention | Literary Prize in Poetry (Ninth Letter) | for “Shutter” and “When I Say No, The Joker Smiles”

  • Runner Up | Foley Poetry Prize (America Magazine) | for “Baby Mania”

  • Finalist | Poetry Prize (Pigeon Pages) | for “Asymmetrical Images…[Tend] to Conjure Thoughts of Mischief”

  • Winner | Best Microfiction | for “On Hesitation,” originally published in perhappened mag

  • Finalist | OPEN Poetry Prize (Frontier Poetry) | for “And So You Want a Poem”

NOMINATIONS

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Club Anthem” - Pidgeonholes

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Your Husband Says Let’s Try Something New” - Southeast Review

  • Best New Poets Nomination for “Lump” - Alien Magazine

  • Pushcart Nomination for “Let Us Do Nothing” - Drunk Monkeys

2020 AWARDS/RECOGNITION

  • 1st Place Winner - Frontier Award for New Poets

  • 1st Place Winner - Poetry Super Highway Contest

NOMINATIONS

  • Best Microfiction Nomination for “On Hesitation” - perhappened mag

  • Pushcart Nomination for “When the Air-Conditioning Breaks” - SWWIM

  • Pushcart Nomination for “Lump” - Alien Magazine

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Geophagia” - Glass Poetry

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “This Kill Bill Scene Has Me Thinking About Weave and Girl-Fights” - SWWIM

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “When in the Wendy’s Drive-Thru, They Ask Me What Sauce and I Say” - Trampset

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Wash Day in the Kitchen Sink” - River Mouth Review

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Born to Die” - Mineral Lit Mag

  • Best of the Net Nomination for “Carnival” - Perhappened Mag

  • Best New Poets Nomination for “How Young Boys Survive the Ghetto: 101” - New Ohio Review

2019 NOMINATIONS

  • Pushcart Nomination for “Pantoum for Black Boys” - The Journal

  • Pushcart Nomination for “How Young Boys Survive the Ghetto: 101” - New Ohio Review