Hybrid/Mixed-Genre
This Past Was Waiting for Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century (rev. 2nd ed.), Lazuli Literary Group, 2026.
Scholarship on Critical Pedagogy
Translated Research on Critical Reading
“Appraising Information in the Cybersphere, Part 2 ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Jan 26, 2026.
“Appraising Information in the Cybersphere, Part 1 ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Oct 20, 2025.
“Intentional Obfuscation ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, May 27, 2025.
“There’s Strength in Specializing ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, April 7, 2025.
“A Little Cheese, for Your Reading Pleasure ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Dec. 30, 2024.
“First, They Came for the Books ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Nov. 11, 2024.
“How Sean Murphy Sees Story ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Sept. 24, 2024.
“Ask a Librarian ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, Aug. 5, 2024.
“The Triumph of Truthiness ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, June 17, 2024.
“Active Engagement ” in The Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, March 28, 2024.“Fighting Fallacies ” inThe Critical Reader , Washington Independent Review of Books, April 29, 2024.
Social Commentary
“Crossing the Empathy Bridge ,” Voicemale magazine, Vol. 24, No. 74, Fall 2020.
“Carried and Carved by the Wind ,” Movable Type literary magazine, inaugural issue, August 2020.
This Past Was Waiting for Me (Washington, DC: Sankofa Love Project, 2018). “Hillcrest Has Long Been a Haven for DC’s Black Middle Class. Will it Stay that Way ?” DCist, July 30, 2018, dcist.com.
“‘He Too?’ What Happens in the Arts When the Innovators Fall ?” Culture Rant, Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Issue XIV, Summer 2018, sfwp.com.
“Haiti, Crossing Borders of the Mind ,” The Rumpus, “Torch” series, June 5, 2018, therumpus.net.
“The Lens Magnifies, The Mirror Reflects: What Photos from the Race War Show Us about Ourselves,” The Rumpus, September 25, 2017, therumpus.net.
“’Language Orthodoxy,’ the Adichie Wars, and the Western Feminism’s Enduring Myopia ,” The Rumpus, April 6, 2017, therumpus.net
“4 Compassionate Ways to Support Black Folks after Racist Tragedies ,” Everyday Feminism, November 7, 2016, everydayfeminism.com
“5 Feelings That White Allies Might Not Realize Black Folks Have after Racist Tragedies ,” Everyday Feminism, October 30, 2016, everydayfeminism.com
“Elegy for Women over the Edge (Middle Passage)” poem, Sally Hemmings Dreams, August 7, 2016, sallyhemingsdreams.tumblr.com
“4 More Things Adults Can Do to Address Child Victimization ,” article Everyday Feminism, August 7, 2014, everydayfeminism.com
“4 Things Adults Can Do to Address Child Victimization ,” article Everyday Feminism , July 31, 2014, everydayfeminism.com
Book Reviews
Review of On Book Banning by Ira Wells, Washington Independent Review of Books, July 3, 2025.Review of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad, Washington Independent Review of Books, March 20, 2025; Excerpted in Literary Hub, April 9, 2025.Review of Black in Blues, How a Color Tells a Story of My People by Imani Perry, Washington Independent Review of Books, Feb. 17, 2025.Review of To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul by Tracy K. Smith, Washington Independent Review of Books, Nov. 21, 2024.Review of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones, Washington Independent Review of Books, Aug. 29, 2024.Review of The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World—and What We Can Do About It by Steven Brill, Washington Independent Review of Books, June 25, 2024.Review of Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria, Washington Independent Review of Books, Sept. 27, 2021.Review of Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine, Washington Independent Review of Books, Oct. 14, 2020; Excerpted in Literary Hub, Oct. 25, 2020.Review of Remembrance by Rita Woods, Washington Independent Review of Books, Jan 29, 2019; Excerpted in Literary Hub, Feb 10, 2020.Review of Gravity is the Thing by Jaclyn Moriarty, Washington Independent Review of Books, August 23, 2019. Review of Malawi’s Sisters by Melanie S. Hatter, Washington Independent Review of Books, May 22, 2019.
Memoir
“Swaying with Wicked Grace” in From the Attic anthology [best of the Grace in Gravity series], (Washington, DC: American University Press, 2023).
“Swaying with Wicked Grace,” in Grace in Darkness: Volume VIII, Grace in Gravity anthology (Washington, DC: American University Press, 2018).
Fiction
“The Old Man ,” chapter from Deep Rooted Cane in Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought, Vol. 1 (Issue 10), Spring/Summer, 2016.
Poetry
“Found Poem,” in 25 th Anniversary Poetry Ink Anthology (Philadelphia: Moonstone Arts Press, 2021), poem submitted for publication.
“Apostasy” poem in 2019 Featured Poets Anthology (Philadelphia: Moonstone Arts Press, 2020).
It Was the Scarlet That Did It chapbook (Philadelphia: Moonstone Arts Press, 2019). “Jazz Interaction with Symbols ” poem, Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought, Vol. 2, Spring/Summer, 2017.
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