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Research & Teaching Interests
Literary Translation, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Swahili Literature, Hybrid & Found Texts
Educational Background
M.F.A., Queens College, City University of New York
M.F.A., New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University
Awards & Fellowships
2024 National Endowment For the Arts Translation Fellowship
2023 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant
Publications
Books
Brain Flavour: A Lyric History of Swahili Hip Hop (No University Press 2026)
We Are Still in the Fort: Swahili Poetry by Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy (as translator; Vanderbilt University Press 2026)
They Are Us, a novel by Katama Mkangi (as translator; University of Georgia Press 2027)
Chapbook
We May Eat Fruit (Ghostbird Press 2025)
Anthologies
“Night Meal” (as translator) in I Was Alive Here Once (Two Lines Press 2026)
“Because: An Etiology” in The Best American Essays 2024 (Mariner Press 2024)
“from Walenisi” and “A Neighbor’s Pot” (as translator) in No Edges: Swahili Stories (Two Lines Press 2023)”
