I am a living witness. I am a Mississippi-blooded, Chicago-born, New Orleans resident and multi-dimensional artist crafting stories and experiences rooted in remembering, evolution, pleasure, and Black Feminist scholarship. I am a spirited healer, writer, educator, and alchemist cultivating soft places for Black folks to land. I strive to excavate the heart of human suffering and inspire levity and integration. I architect poems, works of fiction, and essays that incorporate fantasy, magical realism, and revival. On my substack, The Pleasure Archive, I explore the interdependence of joy and pain. Through essays, poems, and meditative exercises I unveil musings on my journey for body and spiritual sovereignty as the descendant of a captured people forced to build on stolen land.  

 

In 2021, my chapbook The Clearing: A Black Girl Collecting Her Bones was published by 9pages media. I’ve read poems from this collection for institutions predominantly in New Orleans and Chicago including New Orleans schools, Patois Film Festival, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Harold Washington Library. In 2023, I was awarded the Anaphora Writing Residency for my poetic works and I began workshopping new poems for my next collection of poetry.  In 2024, my short-story On Being Claimed was published in the February issue of Midnight & Indigo Literary Magazine. That winter I was selected to attend the Roots Wounds Words Writer’s Retreat for my fiction works. In 2025, I began writing my first novel Spirit Comes from Water, a speculative fiction story that interrogates how environmental decay impacts our interpersonal relationships. Most recently, I was selected to workshop my novel with Abode Press in July and Tin House this fall.