Awards & Recognitions

2003 - Individual 1st Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2003 - Team 11th Place, National Poetry Slam 

2004 - Individual 2nd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2004 - Team 2nd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2005 - Individual 2nd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2006 - Individual 5th Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2006 - Winner of Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Poetry Slam 

2007 - Individual 2nd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2007 - Team 3rd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2008 - Team 1st Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2008 - 7th Ranked, Individual World Poetry Slam 

2013 - Team 1st Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

2014 - Team 3rd Place Winner, Southern Fried Poetry Slam 

• Poetry Foundation sponsored, exhibition narrative: ‘Shiny Things’, which invited ten artists to collaborate in a reciprocal ekphrastic exhibition exploring the intersections of distraction and attraction inherent to boldly asserting ourselves in a world that often prefers us to stay in the shadows. https://artswarehouse.org/dt_team/shiny-things/

• Published - Fiction Fix (Literary Journal, University of North Florida)

• Published - Coastlines (Literary Journal, Florida Atlantic University) 

• First Reader - Fiction Fix (Literary Journal, University of North Florida)

• First Reader - Postcard Poems and Prose Literary Journal

• Judge, 2024, North Carolina Poetry Society Pinesong Awards: Alice Osborn Award

• The Justice Sessions, Presented by the University of North Florida: Featured Poet, 2022, Baobab Black Arts Series

• Facilitator/Instructor, 2023 & 2024, National Poetry Month Youth Poetry Summit

• Workshop Facilitator, 2024, Southern Fried Poetry Slam Summer Workshop Series

• Instructor, Louder than a Bomb & The Omari Hardwick bluapple Poetry Network Poetry & Leadership Conference 

• Instructor, ‘Find the Poem’ workshop hosted by The Asia Project 

• Judge/Facilitator, Poetry Slam with Exchange for Change (Non-Profit) at Dade Correctional Institution, Florida City, FL

• Selection Committee, The Luis Angel Hernandez Poet Laureate

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