The College of

Arts and Sciences

Areas of Interest & Expertise

• Creative Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Poetry

• Oral Literature

• African-American Literature

• Environmental Literature

• African-American History

• U.S. Women's History

• History of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine

• 19th and 20th Century Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 1113: First-Year Composition

• ENGL 150: Critical Thinking and Communication

• ENGL 250: Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition

• ENGL 207: Introduction to Creative Writing

Selected Publications

• “Mama’s Milk and Honey,” “Bird,” The Cities of the Plains: Contemporary Iowa Artists and Poets, an Anthology, April 2024

• "Ain’t What She Used Ta' Be,”The Radical Notion, Issue 9: The Mother, Spring/Summer 2023

• “To Glory,” Sinister Wisdom 125, Summer 2022

• “Magical Kitchens,”Awake, Lucky Jefferson, 2021

• "Tiller," Medusa Rising, March 11, 2025

• “Skin,” Sketch Literary Journal, Spring 2022

• “Make Me a Manhattan," Brazenhead Review issue #3, Spring 2023

• "Starchild,” South Florida Poetry Journal: Issue 22, August 2021

 

Selected Conference Presentations

• Off Our Curved Black Backs: Black Women Are Not Your Mammy, Jezebel, or Sapphire Stereotypes, 2023 Thomas L. Hill Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity

• Off Our Curved Black Backs: Black Women Are Not Your Mammy, Jezebel, or Sapphire Stereotypes, 2022, 7^th Annual International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference

 

Professional Appointments & Professional Service

• Museum Intern, Greenwood Rising, 2024 - present
  

• President, Black Graduate Student Association, Iowa State University, 2022-2023

• Student Steward, Everett Casey Nature Center & Reserve, Iowa State University, 2022-2023

• Founder, Griot Gang, 2021-2022

• Book Reviewer and Column Contributor, Pennsylvania Diversity Network’s Valley Gay Press, 2007-2013

 

Awards and Recognition

• Outstanding Service by a Graduate Student, Iowa State University, Spring 2023

• The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 5 Certificate of Merit for Playwriting, Spring 2022

Current Research