I'm a Chicago-based freelance writer and occasional filmmaker, and all around nice person. Hi, hello!
Awards and Accolades:
Awards and Accolades:
- Roszel C. Thomsen Fellowship Recipient, 2021 and 2022
Johns Hopkins University - Women’s Voices are Important Fellowship Recipient, 2020
Johns Hopkins University - Presenter, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2020 Conference for the paper: "Making a House a Home: Black Queer History and Erasure in House Music."
- Technically a Hugo-Award-Winning Writer, Hugo Awards, Best Related Work, 2019
- Nancy Norris Fellowship Recipient, 2019 Johns Hopkins University
- Winner: Best Writer, 2016 Chicago Horror Film Festival
- Chicago Horror Film Festival
- Los Angeles International Film Festival
- Louisiana Film Prize Festival
- Hollyshorts Monthly Screenings
- Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival
- Chicago Parent Magazine
- The Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Gapers Block
- Oyez Review