ESSAYS & REPORTAGE

THE LAWMAN AND THE OUTLAW (Dec 2022) Adi Magazine (a contemplation of early U.S. history and creation myths, as well as Kyle Rittenhouse, prototypes, archetypes, self-mythologizing, projection, and snake symbology)

INSURRECTION IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (Jun 2020) The Baffler (putting Trump’s threatened invocation of the Insurrection Act into historical context)

YOU MAY HAVE THE BODY (Mar 2020) The Epiphanic (on the pandemic, pathogens, parasites, hospitality, hosts, bodies, borders, and biopolitics, with Derrida’s OF HOSPITALITY as a point of departure)

BECOMING META (Apr 2017) (in DOUBLE BIND: WOMEN ON AMBITION, edited by Robin Romm)

CONFRONTING THE UNREAL, Lit Hub (Jan 2017) (reflecting on the unreality of a Trump presidency)

PRIOR TO EXPERIENCE, Lapham's Quarterly (Jul 2016) (reflecting on policing in Cleveland and my experiences at the first national conference on the Movement for Black Lives)

SHORT STORIES

EVERYDAY APOTHEOSIS, Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Feb 2017) (short story in online literary magazine)

COME TO JESUS, Queen Mob's Tea House (Oct 2015) (short story in online arts magazine, passes DuVernay & Bechdel tests)

CELEBRITY IN THE VILLAGE, Day One (Dec 2014) (short story in Amazon's Kindle literary journal)

POETRY

SOUNDS LIKE DAWN, Empty Mirror (Nov 2017)

GRENFELL, Queen Mob's Tea House (Aug 2017)

GENTRIFICATION, Queen Mob's Tea House (Aug 2017)

REVIEWS

WHO SHOT JOHN, Boston Globe (Aug 2023) (THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, by James McBride)

PAST PRESENT, Tricycle Magazine (Summer 2020) (WATCHMEN, HBO Series)

OF MANY MINDS, The Baffler (Jul 2018) (MISTAKEN IDENTITY, by Asad Haider)

BLACKASS, The Barnes & Noble Review (Apr 2016) (BLACKASS, by A. Igoni Barrett)