POETRY
“Fee” - Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2024.
« 3 poèmes de Vasantha Sambamurti traduits de l’anglais vers le français. » DO.KRE.I.S, Revue haïtienne des cultures créoles - #6 FRAGMENT(S) / MÒSO, 2024. Print. Translated by Estelle Coppolani.
«Printemps » & «Printan » ; translations of "வசந்தா – SPRING" by Vasantha Sambamurti– MAGMA: la revue de la recherche de l'École ESA Réunion - Ecole Supérieure d'Art de La Réunion, 2024. Print. Translated from the English to French and Reunionese Creole by Estelle Coppolani.
"Questions For My White Therapist" & "Little Critters" - The Commuter by Electric Literature, 2023.
"வசந்தா – SPRING" - Southern Humanities Review, 2022. Print
“I Inspire Song in White Women” - the minnesota review, 2021. Print
"Manifest My Throat as Tender" - Cream City Review, 2021. Print
“For the blood of me” - Portland Review, 2021
"Believe Me" & "My OCD Knows I Am No Fool" - The Hunger, 2021, Poets.org, 2022
“Nightwalk” - THE CITRON REVIEW, 2021
"Brunch Abecedarian" - Drunk Monkeys, 2021
“Dinner” & “Three days before I fly to Europe…” - Funicular Magazine, 2020. Print
“House” - No Tender Fences: An Anthology of Immigrant & First-Generation American Poetry, 2019
“Hair” & “Culmination” - Runestone Journal, 2019
“On Whiteness” - Rigorous Magazine, 2018
TRANSLATION
“The Missing Island” and “I remember a river” by Estelle Coppolani – Copihue Poetry, Fall 2022. Translated from French.
“Me” (« Moi ») from Féminin pluriel by Quraishiyah Durbarry – Waxwing, Fall 2022. Translated from French.
“Murder in a Garden" (« Meurtre dans un jardin ») by Isabelle Hoarau-Joly – Exchanges, Fall 2021. Translated from French & Réunion Kréol
"Presente! We are all Marielle Franco!" - Transition Magazine No. 129, 2020: Truth & Trope - translated & edited from Portuguese
EDITORIAL WORK
· Transition No. 135, 2024: SPECIES – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University.
Transition No. 134, 2023: HOME SOON – Senior Editor – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
The Seagull Book of Poems, 5th Edition – Research Assistant - published by W.W. Norton
Transition No. 133, 2022: CLIMATE - Senior Editor - Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
Transition No. 132, 2022: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, Guest-Edited by Wole Soyinka & Alessandra Di Maio - Senior Editor
Transition No. 131, 2021 – Senior Editor - Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
Transition No. 130, 2020: Afro Brazil - Senior Editor - Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
· Transition No. 129, 2020: Truth & Trope – Visual Arts Assistant – Transition Magazine, published by Indiana University Press
AWARDS
Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations Anthology – Finalist (nominated by Copihue Poetry) - 2024
Midway Journal - Finalist for the 1000 below Flash Prose & Poetry Contest - 2023
Sturgis International Fellowship – 2022 - awarded by the Univ. of Arkansas for literary research in La Réunion
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Urdu – 2022 -onsite at American Institute of Indian Studies, Lucknow
CD Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize for “Believe Me” – 2022 – selected by Gary Jackson
Pushcart Prize Nomination in Poetry by Cream City Review for "Manifest My Throat as Tender" – 2022
Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award - Semi-finalist for the Scotti Merrill Award in Poetry - 2022
Pushcart Prize Nomination in Fiction by Northwest Review for "All the Loving."
2021 Best of the Net Nomination by Funicular Magazine for "Dinner" - 2021
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) in Hindi - 2021
Felix McKean Memorial Award for Poetry - selected by Tobias Wray - 2021
Lily Peter Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas - selected by Sy Hoahwah - 2020-21
Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas - selected by Sarah Vap - 2020-21
J. Chester and Freda S. Johnson Fellow at Univ. of Arkansas- faculty select - 2019-20
COURSES TAUGHT
Northwestern University, Center for Talent Development
Persuasion & Debate
Creative Writing Workshop
South Carolina State University
Composition and Communication I
University of Arkansas
Composition I
Composition II
Creative Writing I
Creative Writing II
World Literature 1: Beginnings to 1650 CE
CONFERENCES
“Renaming the Ancestral Body in Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM.” Practicing the Indian Ocean: Crossings, Memories, and Bodies, Université de La Réunion, Saint-Denis. 23 November 2022.