Publications

“Children’s Story” in Glimpse, edited by Leone Ross (Peepal Tree: November 2022)

“The Last Train” in AGNI (May 2022)

“Death Knock” in The New Decameron (November 2020)

“Plastic Knives” in Ploughshares, guest edited by Tracy K. Smith (Spring 2020)

“Gulden” in The Good Journal (March 2019)

“The Pardner” in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2018)

“Natural Disasters” in Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 2017)

and anthologized in bare lit 2016 edited by Courrtia Newland (Brain Mill: 2016)

“Thy Kingdom Come” in The Unreliable Guide to London, edited by Kit Caless (Influx Press: 2016)

“Six Saturdays and Some Version of the Truth” in Closure, edited by Jacob Ross (Peepal Tree: 2015)

“Mr. Tuck” in Washington City Paper (2014)

“Home: The Place Where You Belong” in IC3: The Penguin Book of Black British Writing, edited by Courrtia Newland and Kadija Sesay (Penguin: 2000)

“When” in Brand Magazine (2010)

“Gogo & The City” in Vehicle Magazine (2018)

“A Brief Guide to Literary Banana Republics” in The Believer (2018)

“Out of the Frying Pan” in Wasafiri Magazine (2013)

“Diran Adebayo” & “Biyi Bandele” in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (2009)

“The Presence of Blacks in British Literature” in African Writing Magazine Online (2007)

“In Search of Adequate Representations” in Black British Aesthetics Today (Cambridge Scholars Press: 2007)

“A Prelude To A Brand New Purchase on Identity” in Write Black, Write British (Hansib: 2005)

“Ora Pro Nobis” in The Fire People (Canongate: 1998)

Finalist: The Wasafiri New Writing Award (2015)

Finalist: The DC Commission of the Arts Larry Neal Awards for Fiction (2015)

DC Annual Mayor’s Arts Award in Teaching Language Arts (2012)

University of North London Creative Writing Award (1997)

The Diane Trembath Award for Creative Writing (1997)

The DC Commission of Arts & Humanities Fellowship (2018, 2020-2024)

Tin House Writers Residency Fellowship (2024)

The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Wait Staff Work-Study Scholarship (2016-2018)

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tennessee Williams Scholar (2016)

VONA: Voices of Our Nation Fellow (2011)

Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora & Letters Fellow (2008)

Arts Council of England Writer’s Bursary (2008)

Arts Council of England Travel Grant (2006)

The Creative Collective News Journalism Fellow (2011)