Awards

2024: Winner, Vreeland Prize for Fiction for “Visa Gods”

2024: Third Place Winner, Plentitudes Fiction Prize for “Visa Gods”

2023: Shortlist, Isele Nonfiction Prize for “Waist Beads”

2023: Shortlist, Isele Poetry Prize, for “How to Love a Broken Man,” “Lessons on My Mother’s Face,” “Hail the Feet that Kick in Walls”

2023: Second Place Winner, Marie Sando Prize for the Short Story for “Marry, My Foot!”

2021: Shortlist, Miles Morland Writing Scholarship

2021: Grantee, City Artists Corps Grant by New York City, for “Echoes of Home,” a poetry and music recital.

2018: Winner, The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, for A Nation in Labour, a poetry collection

2018: Shortlist, The Commonwealth Short Story Prize for “Dancing with Ma”

2018: Longlist, Short Story Day Africa for “The Satans Inside My Jimmy”

2018: Longlist, for Short Story Day Africa for “Waiting”

2018: Shortlist, The Ghana Poetry Prize for “We Arise”