2024 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Lexington) $7,500 to fund a year of revision, research, and retreat in order to support the last phase of writing her memoir, Rednecks for Black Lives, which will be published in Fall 2025 by Haymarket Books, and is a working-class feminist story chronicling her childhood in rural Eastern Kentucky and her antiracist leadership transformation. This grant will allow her to hire an editor, complete an in-depth research project for the book, and pay the fees and travel costs for a writing residency, so that her book makes a powerful debut.

2022 Artist Enrichment Grant | (Lexington) $5,000 to cover travel costs for a writing retreat, writing course, and research interviews allowing her to complete her political memoir and place herself in a tradition of Appalachian women activists. The grant will allow her to learn new writing techniques, how to structure a book, and give her insight into the publishing industry.