Education
Reed College, Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Anthropology | Class of 2016
University of British Columbia, Dual Masters in Archival, Library and Information Studies (MASLIS) | Class of 2023
Creative Experience
Black Rock Senegal / Dakar, Senegal | Winter 2021
Writer-in-Residence
- Selected from over 1,100 applicants as one of 15 residents in the second-year class of Kehinde Wiley’s residency.
Kunsthall Stavanger: From KS to You / Stavanger, Norway | August 2020
Public Art Commission
- Wrote an original poem, been thinking lately/of Fela which was put on public display as a banner on the façade of the Kunsthall Stavanger.
Tin House Summer Workshop / Portland, OR | July 2020
2020 Workshop Scholar
- Workshopped an in-progress manuscript of creative nonfiction under the guidance of Jeannie Vanasco.
- Selected as one of 21 Tin House 2020 Summer Workshop Scholars.
STONELEAF Retreat/ Kingston, NY | Summer 2019
Artist-in-Residence
- Inaugural writer-in-residence at Hudson Valley retreat run by curator Helen Toomer.
- Chosen from a pool of over 150 to incubate in-progress manuscript and live/work with photographer Keisha Scarville and sculptor/performance artist Tamar Ettun.
Tracie Morris Workshop / Brooklyn, NY | 2018 – 2019
Workshop Participant
- Along with poet and performer, Jo Stewart, member of a private, monthly, embodied practice, sound and poetry workshop led by experimental sound poet, writer and professor, Dr. Tracie Morris.
Tin House Winter Workshop / Newport, OR | February 2019
Workshop Participant
- Workshopped in-progress manuscript of an experimental nonfiction work titled “Consideration,” under the guidance of Hanif Abdurraqib.
Works & Process / New York, NY | October 2018
Moderator, “More Forever” Preview Discussion
- Moderated discussion between composer/pianist Conrad Tao and contemporary tap dancer Caleb Teicher during a preview of their original commissioned work for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process Series.
[IN] Visibility / Miami, FL | Fall 2018
Artist-in-Residence
- Participated in the conception and execution of an immersive dance-theatre performance exploring gender and queerness under the guidance of choreographer and drag queen, Jay Jackson (Laganja Estranga).
- Created four original poetic works for performance.
Atlantic Center for the Arts / New Smyrna Beach, FL | Summer 2018
Associate Artist-in-Residence
- Selected to collaborate with 8 multidisciplinary artists-in-residence under the guidance of educator and experimental sound poet Dr. Tracie Morris for 3-weeks.
InProcess / Miami, FL | 2016 - 2017
Artist-in-Residence
- Created an interdisciplinary installation of poetry, sculpture, and painting focused on (and hosted at) Miami’s historic Bacardi Building in collaboration with visual artist Nicole Mouriño (October 2016)
- Contributed lyrics to an original song “Heavy Rain” written in residence with composer/pianist Conrad Tao and artist/organizer Lee Heinemann. (May 2017). “Heavy Rain” went on to be performed at the New York Philharmonic in September 2018.
Publications and Awards
– 2011 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts
– Creative nonfiction published in The Rumpus and CovenBerlin
– Criticism published in in the official catalogue of Get Your Life! At the Baltimore Museum of Art and Createquity.
– Poetry published in The Miami Rail, Hunger Mountain, and On Verge: An Online Journal of Alternative Criticism.
– Original art criticism forthcoming in an original artbook publication from SAPP Press as an accompaniment to Sana Sana Fall 2020 solo show at King’s Leap Projects by painter, Audrey Gair.