long stuff i wrote
The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont, The Delacorte Review, 2022
The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle. 2022
Woe is Angsty, Tired, Little You, Black Femme Collective, 2022
If I Had Known Then That Casey and Rhian Were Both Terrible Pieces of Shit, Puberty Would Have Been Way More Fun, The Seventh Wave, 2021
A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic's Persistence, Zone 3 Press, 2020
short stuff i wrote
On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly, 2022
Fried Fish, The Hennepin Review, 2021
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Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2021
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The Best Small Fictions 2022 Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
Visiting a Boy's Room, Split Lip Magazine, 2021
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The Best Small Fictions 2022 Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
conversational stuff i wrote
Writing to Cope: A Conversation with Debut Novelist Yaffa S. Santos, The Rumpus, 2020
Cancel Culture, Feminism, and Comedy: A Chat with Comedian Liz Miele, Ms. Magazine, 2020
some stuff i doodled
late night searches, The Inquisitive Eater, 2022
accolade-y stuff i've received
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Funding Recipient, Lambda Literary Emerging Fellows, 2022
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Fiction Fellow, Kimbilio for Black Fiction, 2022
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Provost Diversity Fellow, Columbia University, 2022
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Summer Comedy Workshop Award Recipient, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, 2022
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Scholarship Recipient, Dave Family Humor Studies, 2021
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Finalist, Richard J. Margolis Social-Justice Journalism Award, 2021
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Scholarship Recipient, Aspen Words, 2021
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Resident, St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, 2021
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Editorial Resident, The Seventh Wave, 2021
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Diversity Grantee, Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School, 2021
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Grantee, BKLYN Incubator, Brooklyn Public Library, 2020
me me me stuff
Hey there. I'm an essayist, humorist, and 30th grader at Columbia School of Journalism. Research-wise, I'm curious about how humor is used to provoke, widen, and distort understandings of and sentiments about race, social movements, and political issues, especially in the US and Germany. In my creative writing, I tend to be more fixated with girlhood, blackness, and outsiderhood. I'm at work on an essay collection. Say hello at thebookofsheena@gmail.com.
