Raised in rural New Hampshire, I spent years in Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, and London, before settling in New York City in 2021; a return of sorts, as I was last in the city attending law school in the early aughts.

After two decades in corporate leadership roles, I have also returned to my first loves: reading and writing.

My first chapbook, Performance Anxiety, is available now from Black Sunflowers Poetry Press. I am agent shopping my first novel, a work of speculative fiction with a transracial adoptee at its center. I am also shopping a narrative nonfiction Civil War-era biography proposal, as well as an anthology of adoptees writing about estrangement, which I am co-editing. My author interviews, creative writing, and criticism has been published or are forthcoming in various popular, literary, and academic outlets. I am a 2025 “Best of the Net” Anthology nominee.

When not writing, I can be found talking to other authors, readers, and pop culture enthusiasts.

I am the co-creator, co-producer, co-host, and writer of the Adoption Pop! podcast, where I examine adoptee representation across media alongside podcast journalist Haley Radke and filmmaker Kristal Parke.

You can experience my conversations with authors, academics, readers, and thinkers committed to the preservation of Black American history on my Additions to the Archive podcast and Substack.

I am a member of the African American Intellectual History Society, National Book Critics Circle, Biographers International Organization, and the New York Society Library. I regularly lead unique and engaging reading groups for the Center for Fiction, and am a member of The Literary Society, a book discussion group active in Harlem and around New York City for more than 40 years. Those visiting the city’s oldest museum, The New York Historical, may find me in the permanent collection or the Center for Women’s History, where I serve as a Docent.

I also serve as the President of Adoptees for Family Preservation, a nonprofit committed to raising awareness of adoption industry practices and the impact adoption has on adoptees and birth/first parents.