Poems
"Marriage," "Burn," & "A Stone Room,” Callaloo, September 2025
Devotion & On Grief, Agbowó, Jan 2024
The Good Years and Other Poems, Lolwe, Dec 2023
Surge, Adda Stories, Commonwealth Foundation, Mar 2023
On the Occasion of Answering & Pulse, IceFloe Press, December 2020
Dorian, Entropy Mag, September 2019
May God Have a Photograph of This, Hellebore, 2019
We Lost Something and Other Poems, Euonia Review, June 2018
Fathers' Day without a Father, Praxis Magazine, July 2018
I am a Slow Breath, Tampered Press, July 2018
Where There is Water, After the Pause, August 2018
Short Stories
“Close”, December Mag, vol 35.2 Fall/ Winter 2024
“Any Good Child,” Narrative Magazine, August 2024
“The Dishwashing Women,” Narrative Magazine, Oct 2022
“Lemon Dove, A Short Story,” Birdfeast, March 2022
“If the Body Makes a Sound,” Narrative Magazine, February 2021
“Behold,” Kalahari Review, October 2020
“To This God I will Say,” Narrative Magazine, July 2020
“Who Do You Say I Am?,” African Writer, July 2020
“First Light,” Narrative Magazine, January 2020
“Tomorrow I'll be Twenty,” Afreada, July 2017
Culture, Spirituality, and History: A Conversation with Saddiq Dzukogi, Southern Indiana Review, April 2026
“To Insist on Loving and on Being Loved: A Conversation with Camille T. Dungy, The Rumpus, April 2026
“Ecopoetry as a Method of Inquiry: A Conversation with MaKshya Tolbert, The Rumpus, April 2026
“On Witnessing and Tracing Family Histories”: A Conversation with Nicole Lachat, Southern Indiana Review, Feb 2026
“A Story of Collisions” & Poetry of Excess: A Conversation with Diamond Forde, The Rumpus, Jan 2026
Ama Asantewa Diaka on Survival, Motherhood, and Breaking Form in Someone Birthed Them Broken, Brittle Paper, Dec 2025
“A Poem Invites You, Warns You, and Then Confounds You”: A Conversation with Adedayo Agarau, The Rumpus, Nov 2025
“I am drawn to the uncanny”: Oyinkan Braithwaite on “Cursed Daughters”, Chicago Review of Books, Nov 2025
On the Beauty of Surprise in Writing: A Conversation with Richard Bausch about “The Fate of Others”, Chicago Review of Books, May 2025
“Humor is our best defense against despair”: An Interview with Erika Krouse, Chicago Review of Books, Jan 2025
The Ordinariness of Living: In Conversation with Tryphena Yeboah, Brittle Paper, Sep 2024
An Interview with Uche Okonkwo, Chicago Review of Books, Apr 2024
An Interview with Kwame Dawes, Southern Indiana Review, Feb 2024
An Interview with Jacqueline Crooks on “Fire Rush”, Chicago Review of Books, Apr 2023
An Interview with Lisa Cupolo on “Have Mercy on Us”, Chicago Review of Books, Jan 2023
Interviews & Reviews
Essays
“But First, Be Human: Thoughts on First-time Teaching, Political Resistance, and the Work of Love”, Writing on the Edge, forthcoming
The Homecoming: Seeing my Mother for The First Time, Agbowo, April 2020
What Happens When Literary Events Move Online?, Lit Hub, October, 2020
An Interview with Ramona Reeves on “It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories”, Chicago Review of Books, Oct 2022
In Conversation with Sadia Hassan, Tab Journal, July 2021
Each Other’s Keepers: Review of Michael Kleber-Diggs's "Worldly Things" (Meter Reader, Mar 2022)
A People’s Guide to Orange County: Real People, Real Stories, and the Shaping of Local History (LARB, Mar 2022)
Confronting the Injustice in our Justice System in “They Can’t Take Your Name” (Chicago Review of Books, Dec 2021)
The Mysteries of Brutality: Review of Éireann Lorsung's The Century (Meter Reader, Nov 2021)
Knowing Your Creeks: On Ash Davidson’s “Damnation Spring” (LARB, Nov 2021)
Book Review of A Net to Catch my Body in its Weaving (Tab Journal, Nov 2021)
Book Review of This Jade World (Chicago Review of Books, Oct 2021)
Book Review of Open Water (Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2021)
Book Review of His Only Wife (Libro Mobile, June 2021)
Book Review of Vera (Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2021)
Book Review of We the Jury (Meter Reader, April 2021)
Book Review of Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth (Libro Mobile, April 2021)
Book Review of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers (Libro Mobile, January 2021)
Essay Review of 1919, A Cruelty Special to Our Species & Midden (Nov 2020)
Book Review of The Carrying by Ada Limon (Tab Journal, March 2020)
Interview: African Poetry Book Fund, September, 2020