ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
Essays/Creative Nonfiction
“How We Are: People Ask Other People ‘How Are You’ [during COVID-19]”
“Love, History, Hope: In the wake of George Floyd’s killing, three black Twin Cities authors look to the past, to their families and to the community as they make a plea for change.” — Star Tribune
“A family trip out west taught this Midwest essayist and bookworm how to find her voice.” — Star Tribune
“Holiday essay: Christmas at Home, Christmas in Liberia.” — Star Tribune
“My Blackness. (Still) Unfinished.” –mnartists
“Losing My Baby.” (with Kao Kalia Yang) –Minnesota Women’s Press
“Fear of a Black Mother excerpt.” –Star Tribune
“Fear of a Black Mother.” –In A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota, (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
“All the Information We Have,” and “Love Across the Middle Passage.” –In Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press).
“New Visions in Birth, Intimacy, Kinship, and Sisterly Partnerships.” (with Valerie Deus) –In Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth (Routledge, 2015).
“A Pariah Among the Dreamless.” –Al Jazeera America Magazine
“Teaching While Black and Blue.” –Gawker
Short Fiction
“Something Out of the Nothing: An Excerpt from Dream Country.” –The Coil
“Minneapolis: Revisited.” –In Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology (Belt Publishing)
“Salvation.” –In Welcome Home (Flux)
“Lonestar.” –In Sky Blue Water (University of Minnesota Press)
Book Reviews
“Review: ‘She Would Be King,’ by Wayetu Moore,”
“Review: The Yellow House, by Sarah Broom,”
‘The Dragons, The Giant, The Women,’ Wayetu Moore
Book Lists
Scholarly Articles
“American Perversions or The Incredibly Twisted, Horribly True Story of How I Got Educated in the Academy,.” In Civility, Free Speech, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education (Routledge)
“Kinship Between Transracial Adoptees: A Case for the Kinship of Loss.” In Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures (Routledge)
“The Risky Business of Engaging Racial Equity in Writing Instruction: A Tragedy in Five Acts.” (with others) –Teaching English at the Two-Year College
“Racial Harassment in the ‘Postracial’ Era: A Case of Discipline and Resistance in the Black Female Body.” –In Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education (Peter Lang)
“Science Fiction, Feminism, and Blackness: The Multifaceted Import of Octavia Butler’s Work.” –In The Black Imagination (Peter Lang).