“I Came To Chicago To Work”

Dear Readers: Rachel Leรณn interviewed me for Chicago Review of Books on my latest novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER, the writing life and working in Chicago. Iโ€™d forgotten how much we covered: the novel composition process, support (or the lack thereof) for mental health, inequities in approaches to men and womenโ€™s meditative literature, unsafety for women. … Continue reading “I Came To Chicago To Work”

Happy to share a Woman of Power, Develyn Biagas

Develyn Biagas: a longtime educator and youth advocate now working on her PhD, with a specialty focus area of African-American girls and the school to prison pipeline. She also works in young adult literature and plans to publish her first Young Adult novel soon. I am happy girls she works with now have someone like her to look up to.

Read excerpt of my next novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER in Intellectual Refuge Literary Journal…

In "Speaking of Summer," the Black women appear to have it all: great homes, men, careers, girlfriends, beauty. But there is a cost to keeping the realities of how they feel about their treatment in the world such a closed secret... I thank editor Christopher Schnieders for publishing this small piece of it and I look forward to finishing it, to share more to come!