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 and heritage, 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 writing is my first and deepest love. 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,” as well as a collection of short stories.