Details: Creative Work
Residencies
Tin House (Online) — Fall Workshop in Hybrid Writing and Poetry with Porsha Olayiwola, 2025
VONA (Online) — Summer Workshop in Prose Poetry with Oliver de la Paz, 2025
Hudson Valley Writers Center — Poetry Residency at the Pocantico Center with Brian Turner, Chen Chen, and Nick Flynn, 2025
Brooklyn Arts Exchange — EmergeNYC, 2025
Santa Fe Art Institute — International Thematic Residency Program: Sovereignty, 2024
Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices
— Multi-Genre Writing with Marcelo Hernadez Castillo, 2023
— Poetry with torrin a. greathouse, 2022
Atlantic Center for the Arts
— Residency #184 with Jaquira Díaz, 2022
— Residency #159 with Natalia Almada, 2015
Fellowships
Royal Society of Arts — Fellow (FRSA), 2025 - Present
Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Online) — Connie Zumpf Fellowship for the Poetry Collective, 2022 - 2023
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (Online)— Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship, 2021
The Home School (Hudson, NY) — Fellow, 2019 and 2018
Performances
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn, NY) — Performance Showcase: Emerge NYC (Jun 2025)
The New Museum (NYC) — “The Anthropophagic Effect,” Directed by Jeffrey Gibson (Jun 2019)
PARTICIPANT INC. (NYC) — “A Notable Fiction,” Directed by Valerie Lynn Werder (Fall 2018)
Screenings: Hip-Hop: A Culture of Influence
Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC)
—Through Our Eyes: A Retrospective of Educational Video Center's Award-Winning Documentaries, 2013
— Debut Screening, 2000
Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage Exhibition:
—Yerba Buena Center (San Francisco, CA), 2001
—Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland, OH), 2000
—Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), 1999
Brooklyn Arts Council — International Film & Video Festival, 2000
Fledgling Film Festival (St. Johnsbury, VT) — Festival Selection, 2000
Taos Talking Picture Film Festival (Taos, NM) — Festival Selection, 2000
H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] International Film Festival (Bronx, NY) — Festival Selection, 2000
Hamptons International Film Festival (East Hampton, NY) — Youth Program, 2000
New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center (NYC), 2000
Rochester International Festival (Rochester, NY) — Honorable Mention, 2000
Poetry Readings
A Gathering of the Tribes (NYC) — An All Hallows Eve of Poetry w/ Bakar Wilson + Irene Villaseñor (Oct 2025)
Naval Cemetery Landscape at Brooklyn Navy Yard (Brooklyn, NY) — Invited by Rose Bordallo (Artist Resident at NCL) to read after her concert during Open House New York Weekend (Oct 2025)
VONA (Online) — Participant Readings (Jun 2025)
Hudson Valley Writers Center — Participant Readings at the Pocantico Center (Jun 2025)
Exquisites (Brooklyn) — Queer Poetry Reading, Workshop, and Publication Series (Apr 2025)
Center For Book Arts (NYC) — Reading for Annual Chapbook Contest Winners (Nov 2024)
Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM) — Open Studios (Oct 2024 and Sep 2024)
Liwanag Filipino Lit Fest DC (Washington D.C.) — Poetry Reading at the Karaoke Afterparty (Oct 2024)
Office Hours Workshop (Online) — Summer Reading (Jul 2024)
Lambda Literary
— Release Party for Lambda Literary's 2023 Emerge Anthology (Jun 2024)
— Writers Retreat Reading (Aug 2023)
Rainbow Book Fair (NYC) — Come Hear! Poetry Marathon (Apr 2024)
Sheepshead Review (Online) — Launch Party (Dec 2023)
decomp journal (Online) — Launch Party (Mar 2023)
The New School (NYC) — Poetry Media Race (Feb 2023)
Cave Canem (Online) — Class Reading: Writing Personas with Fred D’Aguiar (Jun 2022)
Whitney Museum Biennial (NYC) — A Gathering of the Tribes Marathon Reading curated by Regie Cabico (Apr 2022)
Cosmos x Yu and Me Books (NYC) — Community Reading Series for Asian Women Writers curated by Karen Mok at Yu & Me Books (Mar 2022)
Saint Flashlight (Brooklyn, NY) — Poet's Table curated by Molly Gross (Sept 2021)
Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly Journal (Online) — Curated by Monica Prince (Aug 2021)
Museum of the City of New York (NYC) — Big Fun: A Night Dedicated to Diane Burns (Jan 2020)
Starr Bar (Brooklyn, NY) — Q.U.I.L. (Queers United for Indigenous Liberation) Work (Nov 2019)
Caveat NYC (NYC) — Curated by Emotive Fruition
— Came Back With A Clap Back: A Celebration of Women’s Voices (Nov 2019)
— HEARTBREAKER / VERSE MAKER (Feb 2019)
— Everyday We Get More Illegal: Latinx Poets. Co-curated by CantoMundo (Oct 2018)
Activation Residency Fundraisers — Curated by Kamila Hakim
— Halloween Edition (Brooklyn, NY) (Oct 2019)
— Activation Fundraiser: Pleasure Edition (Ridgewood, NY) (Jul 2019)
Intimate Moments Show (Brooklyn, NY) Curated by Liana DeMasi (Aug 2019)
Smack Mellon Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) — Closing day event for “I come to this place” Exhibition (Jul 2019)
Studio 151: Revolutionary Spring (NYC) — Curated by Rachel Rabbit White (May 2019)
Office Hours Workshop (NYC) — Curated by Sarah Sala (Feb 2019) and (Oct 2018)
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (NYC) — Fall 2018 Workshop Reading (Nov 2018)
AGAIN/ST.: A Night of Queer (N)e(u)rotica (NYC) — Curated by Dan Schapiro (Oct 2018)