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Publications, Reviews, and Lists

"Delicate Webbing" - Nightmare Magazine
 
My writing explores the darkness within myself and my past. This horror flash is about a frighteningly unhealthy relationship. I hope readers experience the uncomfortableness the narrator feels for participating in something profane and yet falling head-first into it. 

Spring 2023

"Disrespectfully" - The Deadlands

This is the shortest poem I've ever written, comprised of ~60 words and 2 stanzas. These are the words of a lionhearted ghost, whom I've ensured is now resting peacefully. 

Winter 2023

Review for "They'll Keep You Gestated"

"...opens with a sting of body horror before going to quite a different place..."

Winter 2023

Interviewed by Horror Writers Association (HWA) 

The interview was in the Black Heritage in Horror series.

Winter 2023

Recommended in the Locus Mag 2022 Recommended Reading List

"Death in the Mouth" was recommended reading.

Winter 2023

Recommended on the Horror Writer Association (HWA) Seer's Table List

"They'll Keep You Gestated" was recommended reading.

Autumn 2022

Locus Magazine review for "Georgia Clay Blood" 

"Full of powerful and moving imagery, it echoes with a sense of time, and a look forward in a future that’s still a work in progress."

Autumn 2022

"They'll Keep You Gestated" - Death in the Mouth (Anthology)

I was craving a nightmare set in a bright, pristine hallway. This psychological horror short story is my fucked up ode to liminal spaces.

Autumn 2022

"How to Lay Down Your Burdens" - Air and Nothingness Press (Anthology)

Epistolary stories are my favorite to tell. Letters, diary entries, sermons, and a conjure woman's log book are ways I tell this historical southern gothic about one woman's righteous vengeance. It is inspired by the historical and beloved (especially by me) spiritual 'Down By the Riverside'.

Autumn 2022

"I Shall Not Surrender" - Anathema Magazine

There's a Confederate monument off MLK Avenue in my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. It's on the east side of town, the side my elders still call the colored side. Our side.
While this is a southern gothic poem, more importantly, this is a declaration. 

Ignyte Award Finalist

Summer 2022

"Georgia Clay Blood"Fantasy Magazine

My mind only turns to one thing when driving between those infinite, barren fields in Georgia. The pain. The torture. I was born on this land and am not far removed from the suffering. This southern gothic poem is my thorny testimony.

 

Rhysling Award Finalist 

Summer 2022 

"Black Girls in Castles"Mixed Mag

In high school, a teacher told me I was a "bleeding heart liberal" and that I wouldn't make it far in life as a result. Fuck that guy.

Spring 2022

"The Deathing Room" - FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

In defiance of death, I wrote this horror poem for myself when I lost one of my best friends. It's bloody and heartbreaking and insolent.

Spring 2022

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