As the title suggests, this is my bibliography! The hyperlinks to read the stories are attached to the names of the magazines the story was written for. (I.e., to read “Hostile Takeover”, click “Antigravity Magazine,” which comes before it.
2024
July 2024
Commanding the Room: The Spread of Christian Nationalism in Louisiana Politics (Antigravity Magazine) – Louisiana is the first state to require the 10 Commandments in schools. It’s a part of a 4 decade plan to turn the US into a theocracy. Christian Nationalists took the courts, now they are coming for our kids’ schools.
April 2024
Once more to the lake (With Teddy); (Reckon Review) – I used to be scared of dogs… until I met my little buddy, Teddy. I wrote an essay about how our bond helped me get over my fears, and approach my writing career.
March 2024
Extreme Makeover: Louisiana Democratic Party Edition (Antigravity Magazine) – a story about the past, present, and future of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
January 2024
The Pike Boys – A crime fiction novel based in 1920s New Orleans. (Crime novel) BUY HERE!!
2023
December 2023
2023 Times the Charm: The ANTIGRAVITY Year-End Top 5 – Top 5 Reasons To Be a Little Optimistic, Despite the Far Right’s Threat to Democracy (Journalism)
November 2023
Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience (A sci-fi anthology published by Apex Book Company) – “Town Full of Broken Tin Men” (Science fiction)
September 2023
Antigravity Magazine – “Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Big Religion are Attacking Trans Youth in Louisiana.” (Journalism)
March 2023
Antigravity Magazine – “Think of the Children!: How Book Bans are Being Used to Concoct the Latest Moral Panic.” (Journalism)
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023: “Brief Life Story of Lila” (Soft fantasy)
- Originally published in Fiyah and also reprinted in Apex Magazine, was recognized as a notable story for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 anthology.)
February 2023
Hexagon Magazine Issue 12 – “You Reap What You Sow” (Science Fiction).
Politico: ‘The Americans Got Together and Decided to Drown You in the River’: A young Black engineer, Robert Robinson, sought opportunity in the Soviet Union. He ended up at the center of an international incident. (Narrative nonfiction)
Locus Magazine: “Brief Life Story of Lila,” originally published in Fiyah and also reprinted in Apex Magazine, was added to the 2022 Recommended Reading List
2022
October 2022
Apex Magazine issue 133 – Brief Life Story of Lila
- Originally published in Fiyah Literary Magazine issue 21
May 2022
Antigravity Magazine – Mark Essex: The Fires We Ignore (Narrative nonfiction)
January 2022
Fiyah Lit Mag issue 21 – Brief Life Story of Lila (Soft fantasy)
2021
September 2021
Ploughshares – White Like Me (Creative Nonfiction)
2020
November 2020
Transformations Mag – Why I Won’t Stay Numb (Nonfiction)
October 2020
Truly Adventurous – The Blood House at Fountain Drive (Narrative Nonfiction)
July 2020
The Daily Beast – I Welcome White BLM Supporters. I Don’t Fully Trust Them. (Nonfiction)
May 2020
Buzzfeed News – I’m tired of watching Black death go viral (Nonfiction)
X-ray Lit Mag – Bermuda (Literary Fiction)