Honors and Societies:
- Awarded MacDowell Colony Writer in Residence (April 2020 deferred to May 2021)**
- Shortlisted for Jack Jones Literary Arts Octavia Butler Fellowship (2019)
- Nominated for 2020 Pushcart Prize by a Contributing Editor (2019)
- Signed with Milly Reilly of the Jo Unwin Literary Agency in London, UK (2019)
- Became Full Member of The Society of Authors, UK (2019)
- Waitlisted for Jack Jones Literary Arts Octavia Butler Fellowship (2018)
Public Readings:
- Green Library Summer Reading Series (2020)
- Berlin Writer’s Workshop Spring Series (2019)
- DADDY Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary Party (2018)
- Black History Month Writers Series at The Curious Fox (2017)
Workshops:
- Novel Writing at The Berlin Writer’s Workshop, hosted by Amy Benfer and Tom Drury (Fall 2018)
- The Novel at The Reader, hosted by Kate Brown (Fall 2016)
Publications:
2022:
- A Graveyard of Plants for the People I Love (Wellcome Collection)
- Good.White.Friends™ (contributing essay for Could This Be Love? published by InterKontinental Press, August 2022)
2021:
- Finding My Body Through the Wilderness (Wellcome Collection)
- The Overlooked History of Berlin’s Black Community (Atlas Obscura)
2020:
- How Berlin is Reckoning with Germany’s Colonial Past (Atlas Obscura)
- Drawing Borders on Stolen Land (Aerial Festival)
- This Juneteenth…I want to feel the peace that white people have enjoyed at my expense (The Cut/New York Magazine)
- When best friends break up (SBS Life)
- How I took my first step learning to control my anxiety (SBS Life)
- Social distancing and cooking classes? Absolutely. (Shondaland)
2019:
- Speculative Fiction and Black Feminist Thought (GAY Magazine)
- Let’s Lose Virginity Once and For All (Helloclue.com)
- This General Election Will Have a Knock-On Effect Around the World (Huffpost UK)
- In Search of Better Skies (The Willowherb Review) Nominated for the 2020 Pushcart Prize
2018:
- Retracing Lisbon’s Painful Legacy of Slavery (Atlas Obscura)
- Cooking up a taste of home in Hungary (World Nomads)
- A rap battle with snakes on Walsh’s Pyramid (World Nomads)
- A Chemically Burned Hole in My Hair and Natural Beauty (SBS Life)
- Dating in Australia as a Black Woman (SBS Life)
- Navigating Beauty Standards Around The World as A Black Woman (SBS Life)
- Jewish Comedians Changing the Standup Scene in Berlin (Explore Parts Unknown)
- Why is Rosa Parks’ House in Berlin (Explore Parts Unknown)
- The Perfect Day in Berlin (Explore Parts Unknown)
- The Art of the Apology: Respect Means Having To Say You’re Sorry (Playboy)
- Decoding Potato Chips: Why we love the flavors that we do (NPR’s The Salt)
2017:
- From Voodoo to Televangelism: A black woman’s journey to atheism (Ravishly)
- Black Travel: A History and Rite of Passage (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Berlin (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Seoul (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Budapest (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Stockholm (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Japan (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Melbourne, AU (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: New Zealand (The Root)
- For Those Considering Blaxit, I Present to You: Hungary (The Root)
- Black in Berlin (Handelsblatt Global)
- Don’t Just My Estrangement From Family: It saved My Life (The Establishment)
- The Maternal Instinct is a Myth (The Establishment)
- Explore Parts Unknown: Jakarta (video)
- Explore Parts Unknown: Singapore (video)
- Brexit: The Global Implications (CEO Magazine)
- A Brief History of Black Lives Not Mattering in Australia (CEO Magazine)
- In Defense of Protestors and the Causes They Defend (CEO Magazine)
- Putting a Million Dollar Price on Free Speech (CEO Magazine)
- European Culture as Explained by Eurovision (CEO Magazine)
- There’s something wrong with the way we honour soldiers (CEO Magazine)
- One year later, what has the US learned from the Pulse Nightclub? (CEO Magazine)
- Donald Trump’s legacy will be undoing Obama’s (CEO Magazine)
- And the loser is…everyone (CEO Magazine)
- At what point do we start giving white men the brown man treatment? (CEO Magazine)
- Let’s get ready to rumble (CEO Magazine)
- Yes, there are Nazis in German parliament again (CEO Magazine)
- 4 Reasons to oppose Marriage Equality – SATIRE (CEO Magazine)
- We need to talk about the Oscars (CEO Magazine)
- The Turkish Crisis (CEO Magazine)
- International Women’s Day: The Debate Continues (CEO Magazine)
- The handshake not heard round the world (CEO Magazine)
2016:
- Kehinde Wiley on the Flat Screen (Contemporaryand)
- Kanye West and the Hyperrrealism of Fame (Contemporaryand)
- Boyz II Men: Kadir Nelson and Drake (Contemporaryand)
- The horrendous, hidden impact of sibling abuse (VICE Media)
- I fear for a world under Donald Trump (IB Times London)
2013-2014
- Who still thinks that Blackface is okay? (Discordia Zine)^^
- On Adam Goodes and Australian Racism (Discordia Zine)^^
- Wolves in Friends Clothing (Discordia Zine)^^
- Beyonce and the Rise of Diet Feminism (Discordia Zine)^^
*Article was removed after the death of Anthony Bourdain/Artikel wurde nach dem Tod von Anthony Bourdain entfernt
**Postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic/Wegen der Coronavirus-Pandemie aufgeschoben.
^ Not yet published / Noch nicht publiziert
^^ Website no longer exists
Education:
2014
- Monash University – Graduated with High Distinction
- Melbourne, VIC, AU
- Masters of Arts (Communications & Media Studies)
2008
- The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (Graduated, no applicable GPA)
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Bachelors of Fine Arts (Painting & Drawing)
2006
- Florida State University – Graduated Cum Laude
- Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Bachelors of Arts: Multinational Business Operations & Marketing
- Bachelors of Arts: Studio Art
- Minors: Spanish, Art History
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