Education

• BA, University of Virginia
• MA, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
• EdD, Virginia State University

Awards, Honors, Fellowships

• Association of Writers & Writers Programs (AWP Faculty Fellow
• Virginia Humanities Research Fellow
• JMU Furious Flower Poetry Center Fellow
• Permafrost Poetry Prize
• Tom Howard Poetry Prize
• Pushcart Nominee

Research Books

• The Missed Education of the Negro: An Examination of the Black Segregated Education Experience, 2022

Poetry Books

• Blood at the Root (Finishing Line Press, 2025)
• Nursery Rhymes in Black, University of Alaska Press, 2024
• Mother to Son: Poems, Cross Keys Press, 2017
• 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History III 2012
• 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History II 2008
• 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History I 2007
• I Am Woman, 2013
• Flesh
• Kendall's Golf Lesson, 2007-2014
• 100 Poems You Can Write, 2019

Essays & Creative Nonfiction

• 'Remembering Toni Morrison: a Mercy God Had On Us,' 2019
• 'The Living Truth: The Life and Work of Nikki Giovanni' JMU Furious Flower Poetry Center, 2019
• 'One Last Risk' Forging Freedom: An Anthology of Freedom, 2015
• 'Military Women: History that Built a Nation,' STARS & STRIPES 2013
• 'The Color of Sacrifice,' Forging Freedom: An Anthology of Freedoms Imagined, Lost, Found, and Won, 2013'
• 'A History to Remember: Celebrating the Legacy of African Americans,' STARS & STRIPES 2013

Anthologies

• Poems from the Eagle's Nest, Editor Jr. Poetry Anthology
• Walton, Editor Jr. Fiction Anthology

Selected Poems In

Artemis Journal, Obsidian: Literature & Art in the African Diaspora, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, Penumbra, West Trestle Review, Stonecoast Literary Review, Southern Poetry Anthology IX, Virginia's Best Emerging Poets, The Poetry Society of Virginia's 80th Anthology Collection, About Place Journal, The Chattahoochee Review, Poetry Quarterly, Typehouse Literary Journal, Solstice Literary Magazine, Typishly, The Taj Mahal Review, Deep South Magazine, Southern Women's Review, OF ZOOS, Black Girls Seeks, Kalyani Magazine, Blackberry, Mandala Journal