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10/24/2025

I placed in a poetry competition from the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA).
Comment “Yup” and I’ll DM you the link to read it.

My speculative poem, “In Praise of Afro-Cosmicism”, reclaims the vastness of space, time, and being as a source of Black agency and imaginative freedom.


Traditionally, cosmic horror centers on existential dread, insignificance, and madness in the face of an uncaring universe.

Rather than being crushed by the cosmos, the Afro-Cosmic figure expands into it.

My piece is in praise of that expansion.

10/20/2025

For real for real.

09/27/2025

We deserve better. Do you agree?

09/19/2025

I’m not gonna shut up about this.

08/17/2025

What does inner peace mean to you?

08/15/2025

You can’t hear your best ideas if your nervous system screaming.

03/15/2025

On being the evidence of magic.

Moodboard:
1. My poem
2. Kimberly Rodriguez found on website
3. Clip from
4. Maya Angelou found on Lotus Wong website
5. .qet
6. Sha’Carri Richardson via Female Founders Collective
7. Bossbabe
8. Stumbled upon via
9. Page from Show Us Your Fire
10. Build the wealth of your self, too.

03/08/2025

I wanted to read a sci-fi epic saga centering a Black family. So I wrote it.

My short story, Heirloom, is deeply tied to Blackness and the connections between its past and future.

Climate Fiction Writers League shared the plot:

“a woman’s life in a thriving city of scientific progress is upended when the city’s leaders go on the hunt for an ancient textile. Dru has been hiding it — a dress that connects her not only spiritually, but magically, to her ancestor who sewed the dress during the Jim Crow era.”

Grist’s Imagine 2200 creative manager Tory Stephens interviewed me about the process of crafting Heirloom, what inspired me to explore its themes, and why magic belongs in climate fiction.

10/27/2024

I got published!

My short story Heirloom has found a home at Grist.

The plot:

“In a haven city defined by scientific progress, one woman hides a gift from her ancestors that contains a key to the future.”

I’m grateful for the space that Tory Stephens and the Grist team has created.

They’re fostering an environ where storytellers can dream into climate futures, climate equity, and lives that are aligned with the natural world.

Climate fiction short story: In a haven city defined by scientific progress, one woman hides a gift from her ancestors that contains a key to the future.

10/21/2024

mirror work:

1. Me backstage at L’Oréal ProLab before speaking on the Global Girls Glow panel
2. A page from The Marginalian
3. Ijeoma Umebinyo
4. Taraji P. Henson speaking with Glamour
5. Jerry
6. A poem from Show Us Your Fire