University of Southern Maine: Stonecoast MFA Program, Portland, Maine
The City College of New York, New York, New York
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
Associate Professor of the Practice Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Associate Teaching Professor
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Lead English Teacher
Boston Day and Evening Academy, Boston, Massachusetts.
Featured Reader/Panelist. (2023). Youngstown Fall Literary Festival, Youngstown, Ohio
Featured Reader. Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, Apr. 2023, online.
Featured Reader. (2022). Indiana University, Bloomington. Bloomington, Indiana
Featured Reader. (2022). Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Newark, New Jersey
Featured Reader. (2022). Affrilachian Poets 2022 Inductee Celebration. Lexington, Kentucky
Featured Reader. (2022). Wheeling Poetry Series. Wheeling, West Virginia
Featured Reader. (2022). Calypso Muse Reading Series. Brooklyn, New York
Featured Reader. (2022). Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Featured Reader. (2020). University of California, Merced.
Featured Reader. (2020). Western Connecticut State University. Danbury, Connecticut
Featured Reader. (2018). abrasiveMedia. Nashville, Tennessee
Featured Reader. (2018). Bowery Poetry. New York, New York
Featured Reader. (2017). Fortify Series, Morgantown, West Virginia
Featured Reader. (2015). Newtonville Books Reading Series. Newton, Massachusetts
Featured Reader. (2015). East Meets West Books Reading Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Featured Reader. (2015). Desire: Where It Leads Us. Berklee College of Music. Boston, Massachusetts
Panelist. (2023). Queer/Trans Eco-Literatures by Writers of Color. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Seattle, Washington.
Panelist. (2022). Wearing Two Hats: Writers Teaching High School. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Panelist. (2021). Poetry is Not a Luxury: A Poetry Workshop for Today’s World. National Women’s Studies Association. Chicago, Illinois
Panelist. (2021). Inheriting Indelible Futures: Queer/Trans Editors and Publishers of Color. Outwrite. Washington, D.C.
Guest Lecture. (2020). One Art: Becoming Your Own Best Editor. University of Southern Maine. Portland, Maine
Keynote Speaker. (2020). West Virginia Council of Teachers of English. Morgantown, West Virginia.
Presenter. (2018). Appalachian Poetry, Appalachian Identities. National Writing Project at WVU. Morgantown, West Virginia.
Presenter. (2018). Imagine Being an Affrilachian Poet: Diverse Voices in Contemporary Appalachian Poetry. WVCTE Teachers as Leaders and Writers Conference. Morgantown, West Virginia.
Presenter. (2017). Poetry In the High School Classroom. Teachers as Leaders and Writers Conference. National Writing Project at WVU. Morgantown, West Virginia.
Panelist. (2015). Boston Public Schools ELA Secondary Lead Teachers Convening. Boston, Massachusetts.
Lecturer and Workshop Facilitator (2014). Nellie Mae Education Foundation Cross-Site Learning Institute. Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Panelist. (2013). Mothers of Modern Poetry, T’ang poetry of June Jordan. Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Salem, Massachusetts.
Writing Fellow. (2021). Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia.
Writing Fellow. (2021). Macondo Writers Workshop, San Antonio, Texas.
Writing Fellow. (2020). CantoMundo, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
Writing and Research Fellow. (2019). Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Writing Fellow. (2018). The Writer’s Hotel, New York, New York.
Writing Fellow. (2017). VONA/Voices of Our Nations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Eberly Racial Justice Grant. (2020, 2021). Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
Rowe Award. (2019). West Virginia University Center for Women and Gender Studies, Morgantown, WV.
Affrilachian Poetry
From Holler to Hip Hop: Tracing the History of African Music in the Americas
Hip Hop Nation: The Conceptual Foundations of a Movement
Poetry for Page and Stage