Publications

A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars Milkweed Editions (2023)

“An Archive of Black Memory Six excerpts from 'A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars' Orion Magazine (February 2023)

“Black History, Unearthed: ‘A Darker Wilderness’ explores the relationship of Black folks to nature and to the state. YES! Magazine (February 27, 2023) 

“Breathe: A Meditation in Uprising,” We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, University of Minnesota Press (2021)

“Crime and the Imagination to Contend With It, Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion, Minnesota Historical Society Press (2021)    

“Erin Sharkey Responds to John B. Murray’s ‘Untitled’,” The Transcontinental Dialogue Project and the Virtual Altar (Mid 1980s) (2021) Minneapolis Institute of Art

“Grapefruit” and “Rodented,” Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, Pride Anthology University of Minnesota Press (May 2019)

“Letters from Reverse Middle Passage,” with Junauda Petrus, walkerart.org (July 2018) 

“What Does a Black Liberation Future Look Like?,” MN Artists (April 2018)

“Imagination Blueprint, Liberation Technologies: Free Black Dirt,” MN Artists (Winter 2018)

“The Self In Science Fiction: A Review of Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin,” Brooklyn Quarterly (forthcoming: Spring 2017)

“We Aren’t Afraid of Winter,” Walk Towards It: An Anthology of Urgent Writing (January 2017)

“Grey People are the Guanaco and the Button Hole,” Walker Art Center Untitled (June 2016) 

Free Black Dirt in the Stacks,” Coffee House Press in the Stacks residency at the Archie Givens Sr. Collection at the Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota

“Operation Desert Storm,” Paper Darts (May 2016)