Carmen is a perennial learner, who is as at-home in spirited discussions with her students as she is subdued behind a good book. These activities bring life to her recently published writing in Inlandia’s Blacklandia anthology titled 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories as well as the anthology of Black Cultural Futurism: Ifá, Indigenous African Beliefs, and Black Survival. Some of Carmen’s earlier work earned a James D. Phelan Literary Award and a Solas Award for writings in the category of Culture and Ideas. Her work is also in the Themis and Acacia journals, respectively. And Carmen wrote A Love Letter, published in 2023, and honored by Small Press Distribution as a bestseller in May and June of that same year.
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