Publications

Creative

SELECTED WORKS

Two military helmets with digital camouflage pattern, placed on a dark surface, with one helmet in focus and the other slightly blurred in the background.

Flash Fiction Magazine

The Fobbit

A soldier returning home from Iraq is haunted by what he can’t tell his father and realizes the weight of unspoken guilt.

View through bars of a narrow hallway in a prison, with closed metal doors on both sides and fluorescent lights on the ceiling.

The State v. Nathan Crane or: The Trial of Fill in the Blank

"That's Absurd!" Fiction Anthology

In a surreal, grotesque courtroom circus, a man is put on trial for displaying a blank canvas only to reveal that the real chaos lies in how people interpret art.

Close-up of the back of a black classic car with illuminated red taillights in a dimly lit garage.

A suburban father becomes obsessed with the strange and impossible idea of striking himself in the skull with a lawnmower blade in an attempt to feel something his quiet life no longer provides.

Another Night of Recylcing Cans

Booth

Close-up of a black dog's eye, showing sharp detail and reflection in the eye.

Four retellings of a black dog’s killing spiral from brutal realism, dream, slipstream, and cosmic myth to expose how we rationalize cruelty and consume suffering.

Bosintang – Honorable Goodbye

Fourteen Hills

Silhouette of a person pressing their hands and forehead against a foggy glass surface, with facial features obscured.

An ambitious law clerk murders his gloved employer to claim the mysterious white glove as his own, only to inherit the obsession and corruption it conceals.

The White Glove

Béte Noire Magazine

A close-up of a reindeer with large antlers in a snowy forest, with snowflakes falling and another reindeer in the background.

Kill Shot

A first hunt forces a teenager to question whether masculinity is something proven with a trigger or chosen in a moment of mercy.

Echo Ink Review

Academic

Stack of magazines and books on a wooden desk, with barcode labels visible on some.

Using Experiential Learning to Elevate Black Voices: Analyzing Howard University's Journal, The Amistad

Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs

A model to reimagining creative writing workshops at HBCUs through Experiential Learning Theory so Black student writers gain both artistic agency and real-world professional tools..

Expository

Cover of The Atlantic magazine featuring a person with a collage of colorful spinning tops and vintage toys on their head, wearing a floral patterned outfit.
Cover of 'The Amistad,' a literary arts journal from Howard University, Spring 2024. The cover features an abstract painted background with a staircase in shades of purple and green, overlaid with a black-and-white photo of children holding a banner.
Cover of the Howard University literary arts journal 'The Misad' featuring an abstract illustrated portrait of a person with a black patterned face, wearing a black patterned shirt, and a gold circle behind their head.
Cover of The Amistad, Howard University’s literary arts journal spring 2023, featuring a person lying on sand dunes with tall grass, dressed in dark clothing and white socks, with their face obscured by tall grass.
The cover of Howard University's Literary Arts Journal Spring 2022 featuring a black and white raised fist surrounded by colorful swirling ribbons against a geometric black and white background.

Managing Editor | 2019 - 2024

The Amistad: Howard University’s Literary Arts Journal

Shaped through managing editorial work on Howard University’s The Amistad, the expository writing approach emphasizes clarity, curation, and real publishing practice.

Kaleidoscope: St. Cloud State University’s Mulicultural Literary Arts Publication

Managing Editor | 2009

Managing the journal fostered an expository writing approach informed by both editorial work and creative contribution.