Award winning writer and editor
Selected fiction
"Flickin' on the Dreamstate" - Oxford American, 2024
"Ascension" Conjuring Worlds, 2022
"What’s Done in the Dark" Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, 2021"
Instrument of the Ancestors" Tiny Nightmares, 2020
"Dying Lessons" Strange Horizons, 2020"
Fury at the Crossroads" Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2019
"Sorrow and Joy, Sunshine and Rain" Uncanny Magazine, 2017
"Black Like Them" Fireside Fiction Magazine, 2017
"Tell Him What You Want" Memphis Noir, 2015
"A Score of Roses" Long Hidden, 2014
A Subtle Lyric" Griots: Sisters of the Spear, 2013
Selected nonfiction
The Necessity of Slavery Stories, Uncanny Magazine, 2021
Science Fiction Frames: Final Fantasy VII, Imaginary Papers, 2020
In the next 200 years, Memphis must show up for those who need it most, MLK50, 2019
Let’s Talk About Afrofuturism, Apex Magazine, 2019
Speculative Antiblackness, #BlackSpecFic Report, Fireside Fiction, 2016
Tips for Millennial Black Nerds, Literary Orphans Magazine: The Black Thought Issue, 2015
Editorial
FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction
Trouble the Waters: Tales from Deep Blue
Truancy Magazine Special OwnVoices Issue
Media
CSI Skill Tree: Chrono Trigger (with Aidan Moher), ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
"From Wakanda, With Love," Memphis Magazine
The Imagination Desk, ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
Community Projects
Embodying Freedom: An Afrofuturist Gathering for Reparative Community Engagement
Awards
Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame, 2018
World Fantasy Award Special Award - Non Professional, 2018
Hugo Award Best Semiprozine, 2021
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, 2022
Ignyte Award Finalist, 2023
Locus Award Finalist, 2023