I am so honored to have two prose poems up at Cease Cows Magazine this month and a poem in Kalyani Magazine, available for purchase on their website, Amazon, and the Brooklyn Book Festival.
September 2013 News
Newsweek's The Daily Beast has my piece on global motherhood up this month here. So honored to be featured in such a stellar publication! And my latest piece for Ms. Magazine is online here.
August 2013 News
Ms. Magazine is the only magazine I read when I was growing up. It was awesome then; it is awesome now. I am so excited that they have hired me on as writer for their online site. Here are my first two posts:
July 2013 News
The Feminist Wire is one of my favorite journals. Kim Foster of For Harriet, is an entrepreneurial inspiration. I am so honored to have an article in each of these illustrious publications this month.
"But What About the Children," in the The Feminist Wire
"An Open Letter to My Fellow American Friends and Neighbors From a Black American Mother" in For Harriet
June 2013 News
HEY NYC!!! I wrote some words and the brilliant Malcolm Jason Low had some music composed to them and has choreographed an AMAZING dance piece. It will be performed at the Kumble Theatre in Brooklyn, New York next Wednesday and Thursday! Thanks for your support! xoxo
May 2013 News
I feel so blessed to be selected as a Fellow for Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz's Voices of Our Nation Foundation (VONA) Writing Residency this summer. I can't wait to spend a week around other artists of color in the intellectually and culturally rich Berkeley area.
April 2013 News
Exciting news! I've been selected as a Fellow for the 2013 Cave Canem Residency in Poetry. I can't wait to spend a week back on the East coast writing and reading with such amazing poets!