I’ve been writing since I was a young girl. I was born in Virginia, but I have lived all over the country. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where I was encouraged to embrace my voice, working with writers like Crystal Wilkinson and Samrat Upadhyay. Immediately after graduate school, I stopped writing for many years; simply lived, intuitively knowing I would return to my writing at another point in my life. During this “hiatus” time, I worked in various teaching jobs, including teaching military students on Navy frigates and teaching high school students in Detroit. I currently work at a community college in North Carolina.

As a sensitive, quiet soul, I always found comfort in language for expression and healing. My poems explore health, family, spirituality, and Black womanhood and can be found in numerous literary journals. Recently, I was awarded the 2023 2nd Ephemera Good Contrivance Farm Writing Residency and was a semifinalist in the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize. I have also been involved with the Rockvale Writers’ Colony in College Grove, Tennessee.

Most days, I can be found hiking, reading, and holding sacred space for myself, family, friends, and ancestors. I see myself as an emerging poet who is always learning and just now starting to spread my wings. I am currently working on my first collection of poetry tentatively titled, “Mid-July.”