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, and I am currently working on a nonfiction, Civil War-era project I anticipate querying in late 2025. My creative writing and criticism has been published or is forthcoming in various popular press and academic outlets, and I am a 2025 Best of the Net nominee.

When not writing, I can be found talking to other authors, readers, and pop culture enthusiasts. I am one-third of the Adoption Pop! podcast, where my cohosts and I examine adoptee representation across media. I am a member of the African American Intellectual History Society, National Book Critics Circle, Biographers International Organization, and the New York Society Library. You can experience my conversations with award-winning authors at the New Books Network and Substack, where I interview scholars and thinkers who concern themselves with the Black experience. Patreon supporters of Adoptees On can also hear my adoptee author interviews at the Adoptees On(ly) Book Club. 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 New York’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.