Short Stories

Birthday Girl - Numéro Cinq, July 2013

Essays

I Gave Up on Love, and It Was One of the Best Decisions I Ever Made - Huffington Post, October 2019

Dearly Beloved: A Eulogy for Prince - Dearly Beloved: Eulogies for the Ones We Lost, Zoetic Press, 2017 

The Pool - The Rumpus, March 2016

Recommendation: Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani - Post Road, Spring/Summer 2015

Jacqueline Woodson's Windows - The Writer, December 2014

Why Can't Black Women Claim Sluttiness, Again - Racialicious, June 2014

The Sadder It Gets the Funnier It Gets: An Interview with Steve Almond - Numéro Cinq, January 2014

Shopping While Black: Thoughts about Trayvon Martin - Numéro Cinq, August 2013

Race & Art in America: The Invisible Man Meets Django Unchained - Numéro Cinq, March 2013

Fight the Power - Salon, June 2002

Book Reviews

Telling Stories While We Die: A Review of Kyung-sook Shin's "I'll Be Right There" - Numéro Cinq, July 2014

Rescuing the Wicked Queen: A Review of Helen Oyeyemi's "Boy, Snow, Bird" - Numéro Cinq, May 2014

It Is Love, My Frightened Ones, Love: A Review of Robin Oliveira's "I Always Loved You" - Numéro Cinq, March 2014

​The Story Begins in Death: A Review of Javier Marias' "The Infatuations" - Numéro Cinq, October 2013