I'm a Black-biracial writer, teacher, and artist and the creator, producer, and host of How I Learned, a long-running storytelling/comedy and reading series. I've told or read stories for The Moth, Risk, Mortified, Story Collider, The Liar Show, Literary Death Match, Gotham Storytelling Festival, and at various New York venues that serve booze and sometimes snacks.

 

My writing has appeared in Longreads, VICE, Midnight Breakfast, Electric Literature's The Nervous Breakdown, Elle, The Boston Globe, two anthologies including Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, and Abandoned Rock Operas, and in several magazines and online outlets a long time ago that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name and probably don't even exist anymore. In another life I took a lot of pictures with cameras and some of those pictures were published in places like New York Magazine, Playbill, JPG Magazine, Nerve, An-Mag, The Morning News, Gothamist, and Gawker.

 

I teach mostly creative nonfiction and I'm currently a contributing editor at Vestal Review, a journal of flash fiction. I live in Brooklyn but if you need me for something somewhere else, maybe I'll go there.