EDUCATION
MFA in Fiction || Indiana University, 2019
MA in English || Texas Tech University, 2016
BA in English || University of Arkansas - Little Rock, 2014
FILM CURATION
BFCA @ || with BFCA, on-going
Soyinka, Citizenship, & the Moving Image || with BFCA & WSICE, 2022
LITERARY CURATION
Association of Writers & Poets (AWP) off-site reading || with Indiana Review & Split Lip Magazine, 2019
Collaboration Folio || with Indiana Review & Split Lip Magazine, 2019
Out of Easy Reach Ekphrastic Reading || with Indiana Review & Grunwald Gallery, 2019
Discourse on Tenderness || with Gnat Bowden, 2018
FILM EDITING
IX XXII I || original short created in collaboration with Johanna Tesfaye, in post-production
There’s No Way There From Here || short dir. by Jessica Lanay, in development
Conjure || docuseries dir. by Larisha Stone, in production
niggas & trees || original short, in post-production
nightmare || original short, 2020
The Revolution Will Be Online || video essay, 2020
LITERARY EDITING
The Book of More Delights by Ross Gay || Freelance Copyeditor, 2023
Indiana Review || Editor in Chief, Associate Editor, Associate Genre Editor, Reader, 2016-2021
Black Camera || Assistant Editor, 2021
Be Holding by Ross Gay || Freelance Copyeditor, 2019
my hair grow fast by Shakeema Smalls || Freelance Copyeditor, 2017
Iron Horse || Associate Poetry Editor, 2015-2016
Oxford American || Poetry Intern, 2014-2015
Equinox Literary Magazine || Poetry Co-Editor, 2013-2014
Artistic Justice || Founder, 2010-2011
FILM WRITING
There’s No Way There From Here || short dir. by Jessica Lanay, in development
To the River || short dir. by Elena Guzman, in development
Conjure || docuseries dir. by Larisha Stone, in production
In the Beginning || experimental documentary dir. by Jaeda Mason, 2020
nightmare || original short, 2020
LITERARY WRITING
“Stages & Spaces” column || The Ryder Magazine, June 2023-January 2024
“Suggested Questions to Ask Your Father & Grandfather & Great Grandfathers Too Even If You’ve Largely Ignored Them the Way They’ve Ignored You Most Your Life” || Black Lit Exhibit, February 2023
“loving You holy” || Black Lit Exhibit, March 2022
“When You’re Missing Him” || Plume 9 Anthology, June 2021
“{HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER)” || Poesis 1.2, August 2020
“Discourse on Tenderness” || The Tenderness Project, February 2020
“We Are Each Other”: Interview on The Tenderness Project || Indiana Review, May 2019
“Go-Rilla Means War and Black People in Bloomington” || Black Film Center & Archive blog, October 2018
“Let Them Call It Sleepwalking” || Vinyl Poetry and Prose, January 2016
“Uncle Courtney Finds a Pink Shirt” || Kinfolks Quarterly, Fall 2015
TEACHING
Intro to Design & Production || Grading Assistant, Indiana University, Fall 2022
Sports, Media, & Society || Grading Assistant, Indiana University, Spring 2022
Spike Lee Filmworks || Instructor on Record, Indiana University, Fall 2021
Visual Communication || Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Spring 2021
Media 101 || Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Fall 2020
Literary Editing by Creatives || Instructor on Record, Indiana University, Fall 2017
Intro to Creative Writing || Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
First-Year Composition || Document Instructor || Texas Tech University, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Projectionist || The Ryder Film Series, May 2023 - present
Community Collaborative Member || Sankofa Village Arkansas, 2022 - present
Publications & Programming Associate || Black Film Center & Archive, 2022 - present
Cast—Woman #2 || She Is dir. by Deonna Weatherly, 2020
Media Writer || Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, 2020
Social Media Intern || The Tenderness Project, 2019-2020
Research Assistant || Black Film Archive & Center, 2019
Letterpress Studio Assistant || Texas Tech English Department, 2015-2016
Media Liaison || Field Office Agency, 2014
HONORS
Grants Committee Member & Chair || Bloomington Arts Commission, 2020-2022
Emerging Critics Fellow || National Book Critics Circle, June 2019-2021
Cave Canem Fellow || Cave Canem Foundation, 2016, 2017, 2018
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES, & WORKSHOPS
Martha C. Craft Scholarship Recipient || Indiana University Writers' Conference, 2018
16mm workshop || A Century of 16mm, 2023
“Home Movies as a Rememory Tool” + matriline ritual (2023) screening || Royal Anthropological Institute virtual conference, 2023
“How to Use Home Movies as a Rememory Tool” + matriline ritual (2023) screening || American Anthropological Association conference, 2023
PERF + How to Use Home Movies as a Rememory Tool zines || Bloomington Alternative Media Fest, 2023
Smile4Kime (Elena Guzman 2023) Q&A with filmmaker || IU Cinema, 2023