About Me

First, as most writers are, I am a lifelong reader. Stories helped a young Black girl in the 60s and 70s see beyond the neighborhood in Detroit, where I saw first hand the riots of 1967.

As a five year old, forced to sit in a hallway, with all the doors closed off so that no light shined through. Using a flashlight to read made this terrifying experience tolerable.

When my elementary school librarian read one of my first stories and then invited me to read it to several classes, it sparked what would become my lifelong obsession.

To write stories.

And over the entirety of my life, I have written. Whether it was plays, screenplays, spoken word, to novels, poems, flash fiction to commentary and non-fiction.

Writing sustains me.

Today I write speculative fiction, suspense, and stories that explore survival, power, resilience, and the choices that shape who we become. Whether I’m working on a dystopian future, a mystery, or a story of transformation, I’m interested in the people at the center of the story and the decisions they make when everything is at stake.