Title: Professor
Company: Dillard University
Location: New Orleans, LA
Achievements:
- Inductee, Worldwide Lifetime Achievement (2016)
- Nominee, Best Female Faculty, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Digest (2014)
- Recipient, Arts Excellence Award, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (1996, 1989)
- Recipient, Creative Writing Award, Louisiana Board Regents, Dillard University (2003)
- Recipient, Commissioned Poem Medal, National Constitution Center, Am. (2006)
- Grantee, National Endowment Humanities, UNCF-Mellon Faculty Fellowship (2012)
- Recipient, Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellowship (2012)
- Grantee, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Community Partnership Grant, Hi Eta Sigma National Honor Society (2011-2012)
- Featured Member, Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who (2009-2010, 2013-2016)
Designations:
- Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
- Master of Fine Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
- Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, California