Her work lives in the lineage of Janie and Tea Cake, Tish and Fonny, the complicated chemistry of Jadine and Son. The pairings that made her believe Black love stories belonged on the page in their full weight, with all their grace and all their mess. She writes character-driven intimacy with the yearning power of R&B woven inside of it.

A Chicago native, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of Anthropology, writing is the natural progression of a life spent wandering and learning all the ways in which we are marked by what we've lived. You can find her, on any given day, fully immersed in the things and places she loves without condition — falling endlessly in love with people, with places, with everything still left to find.