Poetry

“On a Hot Night (Harlem, 1929),” The Offing, 2023

“Self portrait as an A train car,” Painted Bride Quarterly, 2022

“Keep Your Head Up,” Action, Spectacle, 2022

“Greener,” The Rumpus, 2021 

“My Body as the George Washington Bridge all Lit Up at Midnight,” The Common, 2021

“when the party’s over or, portrait of an addict zero days sober,” The Common online, 2021

“Night shades or, people unraced,” Bennington Review, 2021

“Sugar Daddies,” The Swamp Literary Magazine, 2021 

“Yelp Reviews for a Lost Corner,” Scoundrel Time, 2020

“Faded,” Yes Poetry, 2020

“Dream Machine,” Redivider (2017)

Fiction

“Even Days,” The South Carolina Review, 2021 

“Not The Type,” Nat. Brut. (2017) 

Interviews & Conversations

“Writing, I Can’t Waste Time: Alejandro Varela on the Political Public Health Novel,” Apogee Journal (2022)

"Press 5 to Accept this Call: On Creating Connection Across Prison Walls," Apogee Journal, 2022 (with Rahsaan Thomas)

“Safia Jama on Respecting the Pain of the Poem,” Apogee Journal online, 2020

Agents and Editors Recommend, Poets and Writers Magazine, 2020.

The Abundance, Joy, Beauty, Persistence, Power, and Potential of Independent Publishing: A Conversation with Six Black Editors, Poets and Writers Magazine, 2020.

Interview with C Pam Zhang: “Making Room for Imaginative Empathy in the Historical Record,” Apogee Journal online, 2020

Interview with Crystal Hana Kim, “Uncovering the Secret Life of Women in War Time,” Apogee Journal online (2019)

Interview with Naima Coster, “Making Visible the Losses of Gentrification,” Apogee Journal online (2018)

Interview with Zinzi Clemmons, “The Freedom to Defy Expectations,” Literary Hub (2017)

Interview with Paul Beatty, “Freedom to Create,” Apogee Journal (2015)