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FICTION

• “She Should Have Been Prettier.” Novel Excerpt. Shelf Unbound pp. 66–67.
• “This was the First.” Novel Excerpt. The Collagist
• “Only in America.” Tampa Review
• “Aunty Stays.” Passages North
• “The Wife.” Kenyon Review.org
• “An Arranged Honeymoon.” Kenyon Review 
• “My Brother Told Me.” Reverie: Midwest African American Literature
• “A House with No Man.” Mosaic
• “An Erect Giant.” The Tidal Basin Review
• “The Walk of an Empty Woman.” Cream City Review

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 ESSAYS AND CRITICISM 

• “A Terror Felt Rather Than Seen.” The Georgia Review. Special Assignment: “On Claudia Rankine’s Just Us: An American Conversation. Spring 2021. pp. 234–237.
• “‘White Man’s Magic’: A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass, Afropolitanism, and (Post)Racial Anxieties.” Afropolitan Literature as World Literature. Ed. James Hodapp. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 71–84.
• “Are We All Feminists? The Global Black Hair Industry and Marketplace in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, vol. 16, no. 1, 2018, pp. 163–83.
• “Humor as Deconstructive Apparatus in Bernardine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Special Issue: Unchaining Selves: The Power of the Neo-Slave Narrative Genre. vol. 40, no. 2, spring 2017. 174–182
• “The Middleman Speaks: Race, Citizenship, and Labor in The Beautiful Things that Heaven Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora.  Eds. Julius O. Adekunle and Hettie Williams. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 2013. 83–93.
• “Passing for What?: The Marrow of Tradition’s Minstrel Critique of the Unlawfulness of Law.” Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First African American Writer.  Eds. David Garrett Izzo and Maria Orban. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2009.  188–201.
• “Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Africana Womanist Vision of Environmental Justice.” 2008. James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities: Imagining Communities: People, Places, Meanings.