I am an award-winning author of books for younger readers. My young adult novel, Cemetery Songs, explores adoption narratives, Black experiences in Minnesota, and questions of self-discovery and acceptance. The novel earned me the 2023 Best Indie-Published Young Adult Fiction Author award from the Minnesota Author Project.
I am also the proud author of several books for middle grade readers, including the Dark Waters series and many titles in the Girls Survive series.
Explore this site for more information about my work and ways to get in touch. I am available for author visits, either in person or virtually. Thanks for visiting and happy reading!
As an author and librarian, I am appalled by the recent campaigns to ban books across the United States. These misguided efforts promote censorship and silence voices, especially by targeting works created by Black and queer authors in particular.
Reading is a gift. Books offer windows into new worlds. Young people need the freedom to explore the richness and complexities found between the covers of a book. They deserve to see themselves represented in the pages. They need to see people of different identities represented in those pages, too. A small group of parents and other individuals should not be making decisions about what other people’s children can and can’t read.
United Against Book Bans has a variety of tools and talking points to help us all combat book challenges and bans.
