publications
Emergence | Scalawag Magazine, Salt, Soil & Supper Special Issue
2024 Reed Environmental Writing Award Nominee
To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts | Truthout
Water Is a Human Right. Let’s Create a Society That Affirms This. | Truthout
Rejoice! A Relief: A Response to Rashaun Rucker’s “Relief From Heat” exhibition | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
future sermon #1: what if I told you (abridged) | MetroTimes Fiction Issue
Composite Material // Spirit Willin | Black Warrior Review
Pushcart Prize nominee
To Conjure the Future We Want, We Need a Revolution of the Heart | Truthout
ibi mímọ or home was the holy place | Winter Tangerine
the cosmic matter of Black lives | The Iowa Review
received an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2019
Charting the Love — and Betrayal — In Our Stars | Longreads
blk_grls_x-ing | Fourth Genre
received an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2018
An Open Letter to President Obama | Bustle Magazine
Resisting Despair: Speaking Truth in the Face of Trump | Truthout
Dislocations | The Feminist Wire
performances & exhibitions
Detroit Narrative Agency x TEDxCountdown Radical Remedies: Life and Land Screening and Talkback (September 2023)
the cosmic matter of Black lives ritual-performance III, Arab American National Museum (July 2023)
the cosmic matter of Black lives ritual-performance II, at Eastern Michigan University (January 2023)
the cosmic matter of Black lives ritual-performance I, presented by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University (October 2022)
Allied Media Conference 2022 Closing Ceremony (July 2022)
Visions of the Evolution: Renewal, Live at 8th Annual Sidewalk Detroit Festival (August 2021)
Detroit Narrative Agency 2021 Ethics & Aesthetics Film Series (2021)
Visions of the Evolution: Restoration (2020)
Dual Visions Group Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2021)
Serve & Protect: A Gospel (2020)
Black History Month Tribute: Afrofuture Performance, sponsored by Science Gallery Detroit (2020)
Visions of the Evolution: Revelation I (2019)
interviews
This is Hell! To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts | September 2023
Black, Spiritual and Free: A Conversation with Cherise Morris | January 2023
Interview with Hoodoo Plant Mamas podcast, ep. 34 “Alive at the End of the World” | October 2022
Subject Matters | June 2021
Communicating with Spirit: An Interview with Cherise Morris | May 2021
Detroit Cultural Dual Visions Conversation | May 2021
Artist Feature in SKEW: The Level Ground Magazine Issue 2 | November 2020
Detroit Cultural Interview | Fall 2020 Issue
Fourth Genre’s “Off the Page” Podcast | May 2019
awards & recognitions
Santa Fe Art Institute Changing Climate Residency 2023
Creative Capital Grant Shortlist 2022
Bulk Space Grant Recipient | January 2022
Knight Foundation Grant Recipient, Visions of the Evolution | November 2021
Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant Recipient | July 2021
Rapid Residency, Science Gallery Detroit | Fall 2020
Poets & Writers Grant Recipient | November 2020
Red Bull Arts Microgrant Recipient | August 2020
2019 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for Creative Nonfiction
Notable work in Best American Essays 2019 | October 2019
Notable work in Best American Essays 2018 | October 2018
Finalist for the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Prize | October 2019