Honors and Societies:

• 2025 Artist in Residence at Art Omi, Hudson River Valley, New York, USA

• 2025 Artist in Residence Fellowship awarded by Universität Bayreuth’s Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (upcoming)

• Awarded MacDowell Colony Writer in Residence (April 2020 deferred to May 2021)**

• Awarded 2021 John Hargraves and Nancy Newcomb Fellowship by the MacDowell Foundation

• 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)

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:

• Monash University – Graduated with High Distinction

  • Melbourne, VIC, AU

  • Masters of Arts (Communications & Media Studies)

• The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (Graduated, no applicable GPA)

  • Chicago, IL, USA

  • Bachelors of Fine Arts (Painting & Drawing)

• 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