PUBLICATIONS: FICTION, NONFICTION, INTERVIEWS

“Potion: Whiskey as Ritual.” Black Food. Editor: Bryant Terry. Forthcoming.

“Spirits Don’t Cross Over Water Until They Do.” Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue. Short Story. Print. Forthcoming.

“The Rites The Bind.” O: The Oprah Magazine. December 2020.

“The Ferrante Project: The Freedom of Anonymity.” Aster(ix) Journal. 2020.

“Talibah Safiya: The Oracle of Castalia.” Oxford American. Essay. Issue 111. Music Issue. Winter 2020.

“Always Open, The Eureka Hotel.” Strange Horizons. Experimental Essay-Story Hybrid. 2018

“Read My World.” Oxford American. Issue 100. Spring 2018.

"Who's Got the Body?" Callaloo. Short Story. 2017.

“With Love.” Short Story. Grist Journal. 2017.

“Through Valleys.” Memphis Noir. Short Story. Akashic Books Noir Series. 2015.

“Obits and Orbits.” Callaloo. Short Story. Fall, 2014. Volume 37, No. 5. Fall 2014.

“Collected Likenesses.” Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. Short Story. 2014.

“The Drummer.” The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought. Short Story. 2014.

“Inhabited by the Story.” Press Street. Interview with Roxane Gay. 2014.

“Praisesong for the Postcard.” The Toast. Essay. 2013.

“Making A Place for Grief at the Thanksgiving Table.” BuzzFeed. Saeed Jones, editor. Essay. 2013.

“Making Gaines.” 225 Magazine. Profile of Dinaw Mengestu. 2012.

“Why I Hated the Blues.” Oxford American. Essay. Issue 71. 2010.

“Nighttime.” TORCH. Short Story. 2009.  

“Dream Season.” Oxford American. Short Story. Issue 64. 2009.