Awards

Finalist, Housatonic Book Award, Western Connecticut State University (2024)
Winner, Silver Nautilus Book Award (2024)
Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, Publishing Triangle (2024)
Finalist, Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize, University of New Hampshire (2024)
Notable Book, Julia Ward Howe Award, Boston Authors Club (2024)
Debut full-length manuscript, futureblack, is a finalist in the 2018 National Poetry Series competition (August 2018)
Plexus Project Resident (December 2018)
Awarded a scholarship to Marcus Wicker's workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center (April 2018)
Named Co-editor of Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3 (March 2018)
"My Future Black/Certificate of Death" is nominated for a Pushcart Prize (December 2017)
2017 Create Change Fellow at the Laundromat Project (March 2017)
"Commute" (Foundry Journal) is nominated for a Pushcart Prize (November 2016)
Spells for Black Wizards is a winner of the 2017 TAR Chapbook Reading Series and will be published by the Atlas Review (November 2016)
"Crown Heights" is nominated for Best of the Net 2016 (September 2016)
Brooklyn Poets Fellow, Brooklyn Poets (Summer 2016; Unanimously selected. Studied with Patricia Spears-Jones)
Poet of the Week, Brooklyn Poets (April 2016)

Press

KC Norton mentions I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING on the American Booksellers Association blog (2024)
Ben Sisto interview at the Well (2024)
CLMP includes I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING on their Pride reading list (2024)
The Publishing Triangle announces I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING is a finalist for The Audre Lorde Award (2024)
Michelle Tea mentions I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING in her Substack (2024)
We Here selects I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING for their We Reads Winter 2023 collection
Laura Stackton mentions I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING in Book Riot (2023)
Zainab Omaki reviews I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING in the Southern Indiana Review (2023)
Denise Duhamel mentions I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING in The Best American Poetry blog (2023)
Laura Sackton mentions I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING in a roundup of indie publishers with extensive queer and BIPOC catalogs at Book Riot (2023)
Mandana Chaffa features I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING at Electric Literature (2023)
Connie Pan features I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING at Book Riot (2023)
Asa Drake reviews I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING at Adroit Journal (2023)
Ronnie K. Stephens reviews I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING at The Poetry Question (2023)
Autostraddle recommends I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING (2023)
Ms. Magazine says I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING is some of the best poetry from the past year (2023)
VOGUE recommends I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING (2023)
Dana Isokawa of Poets & Writers Literary MagNet features I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING (online and in print - 2023)
Alice James Books announces I AM THE MOST DANGEROUS THING (2022)
Claire Bowman reviews Spells for Black Wizards at the Host Publications blog (February 2020)
Elvis Alves analyzes my poem "Commute" as well as other poems that appear in the Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation at the Good Men Project (November 2019)
New York City-based, award-winning poet Candace Williams will perform at the Stamford Advocate (November 2019)
Grappling Against Oppression with Poetic Erasure at the UC Davis Humanities Institute website (October 2019)
Collective Feelings at the Margins - Asian American Writers' Workshop (July 2019)
Eileen Myles Discusses Education, Palestine, More, at Electric Lit at the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog (September 2018)
Listed on Autostraddle's 100 Poets for your Survival Pack (March 2018)
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's The Crown Ain’t Worth Much Elevates the Terrain at the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Blog (September 2017)
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Candace Williams interview at VIDA Web (August 2017)
“1492 More Than Ever”: Talking with Poet Candace Williams about Art Before, During, and After Trump at Brooklyn Magazine (April 2017)
Listed on 13 New York Poets Changing the Lit Scene at CCM/Entropy (March 2017)
Time Out New York and NYC Arts feature Black Panther Got Loose from the Bronx Zoo (January 2017)
Quartz's Carey Dunne interviewed me about the Eyebeam CrytoParty and basic websec practices (January 2017)
"Commute" is on Glass Poetry's Recommended Reading: 2016 list (December 2016)
Jenny Zhang mentions my 70-Day Web Security guide in "Against Extinction" in the New Inquiry (November 2016)
70-Day Web Security guide mentioned in The Rumpus (November 2016)
Announced as a reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal (November 2016)
A tiny interview for Cosmonaut Avenue's Tiny Spills series (October 2016)
Five Questions about the making of "Commute" in Foundry Journal (September 2016)
A sweet mention by Natalie Eilbert in her VIDA interview about trauma, privilege, and performance (August 2016)
Interviewed by Ruth Awad for Pet Poetics (August 2016)
Poetry Spotlight, Lambda Literary Review (July 2016)
"Black Sonnet" featured on Coldfront's This Morning (Spring 2016)
Change Seven recommends "Black Sonnet" in "7 Reads We Recommend" (May 2016)