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The Value of Discarded Things
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The Value of Discarded Things
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  • Selected Publications

    + “How I Learned to Read: An Abecedarian Primer”: Shenandoah (Spring 2025)

    + "Reduce, Recycle, Reuse": The Main Review (Issue 10.2)

    + "The Disney Look": Anthology: Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women (Black Lawrence Press, 2024)

    + "Which One is the Lifeline?" : The Common: A Modern Sense of Place (Issue 24, 2022)

  • Awards & Recognition

    + Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2026)

    + Tin House Reader Fellowship, 2024

    + Finalist for the 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest

    + “Which One is the Lifeline?” named a Notable Essay of 2022 in Best American Essays 2023

    + Tin House Scholar, summer 2023

    + Contributor Award, 2023, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

    + Author Fellowship, Anaphora Writing Residency, 2022

    + 1st place in Nonfiction for Writer on the Verge: Litquake Writing Contest 2016, San Francisco