Forthcoming book
A record of how the mother's textile became sound (Noemi Press 2023)

Finalist
an improvised song is likely to come apart and scatter in infinite directions manuscript was a finalist in Autumn House Press 2021 poetry contest judged by Eileen Myles.

A Hemmed Remnant manuscript was a finalist in the 2018 Ron Sillerman Prize for African Poets by the University of Nebraska Press and also a finalist in the 2018 Brigham Award through Lost Roads. 

Published in lit mags
​RHINO, "Mother as Text"
Fence Books “In Proximity”
The Texas Review “2nd-Class Citizen Abroad”, & “Tracing the word”  
Grist Journal (Grist ProForma Contest Finalist) “Sometimes a mother is”,
Bayou Magazine “Dear Teta Abla"  
Bayou Magazine, “Song of Libnan" 
AMP: Hofstra  “A Triolet for the Vanishing Migrant” 
AMP: Hofstra  “Semitone Piecing”  
Rogue Agent, “That I remember” also Nominated for Sundress Publications' 2017 Best of the Net
Progenitor Art and Literary Journal, “Remnants of Submission”  
The Elephants  from “Stem Sound”: “On stems” , “In”, “principio”, “erat”, “Verbum”, “et”, “apud”, “sonus”, “Stem sound”