Hello! I am a Black feminist writer, scholar, and educator. I am an Assistant Professor of English at Emory University, where I teach classes on African American literature and culture from a transnational perspective. I hold a PhD. in English from Duke University and a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University.

My research and writing explore questions of spirituality, memory, and gender in African diasporic literature. I am particularly interested in using archives as ancestral practice.

You can find my public writing in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, The Boston Review, Public Books, and Scalawag Magazine. My scholarly writing has been published in Small Axe, Meridians, Palimpsest, and African American Review.

My writing is always informed by the people who have shaped me in Miami, New Orleans, Durham, NC, Haiti, Martinique, and beyond. All power to them.