Books

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Disgruntled (2015)

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Get Down (2006)

 
 

Writing (selected)

Fiction

  • “Delandria.” Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi and Minton Jenny, eds. The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Stories. New York, Anchor Books, 2021. 

  • McSweeney's Quarterly. Issue 55, Spring 2019.

  • “Black Women Academics and Their White Male Partners: A Study in Seamless Contradictions.” Kweli Magazine. December 22, 2014. 

  •  “Cold Water for Blood Stains.” The Kenyon Review. Winter 2013. 

  • “Secret Pool” in USA Noir: The Best of the Akashic Series. Temple, Johnny, ed. Brooklyn, New York: Akashic Books, 2013.  

Nonfiction

  • “Live from the Belly of the Beast: In 2020 West Philadelphia was the best place in this terrible world,” Philadelphia Magazine, June 2021.

  • “Conversations with Microagressions and the Spirit World.” in Eds. Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin. How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance. New York: Nation Books, March 2019.

  • “Killing the Donald Trump in Us: How to be Less Like the Man We Elected to Lead Us,” Very Smart Brothas, January 2, 2018. 

  • “Asali Solomon Recommends,” Poets & Writers, December 10, 2015. 

  • “Difference”, O: the Oprah Magazine. 

  • “Black History,” Paris Review Daily, November 24, 2015. 

  • “Black Fuzzy Thing” in Naked: Black Women Bare All About Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts. Byrd, Ayana D. and Akiba Solomon, Eds. New York: Perigree Publishers, 2005; excerpted in Essence, May 2005.