Somewhere between this present moment and some moment past is a connection that we’ve missed. My writing seeks to tell that impossible story with prose and poetry. I am influenced by fashion, street art, and documentary films. Particularly the work of T.S. Eliot, Kendrick Lamar, Thomas Cole, Phyllis Wheatley, and Spike Lee.

I write to build and discover bridges--no matter how tenuous--between ideas, geographies, and cultures. The payoff comes when I discover the everyday life details that translate systemic problems into personal problems.

I complete my work by starting with a small observation—minuscule: the name of a street sign, the preferred path of the casual passerby, and the silence on a city side street. My tiny observation often leads to two questions—why do we take this seemingly insignificant reality for granted…and how did this reality come to be? I often find parallels in unlikely places.

I want readers to understand hidden histories—what it means to be plucked from home, pulled from culture, erased from history. I want readers to grapple with what's hidden or unseen by design--the way a highway overpass decimates the social fabric of a neighborhood or city officials squeeze public art about catastrophic injustice in dark alleyways. I want to illuminate what’s often taken for granted -- parking lots in cities with housing shortages, streets named after white men, the American dream.

My work seeks to propel people to a political awareness that’s deeply rooted in cultural nuance, to pull attention to the details that hold up entire sociopolitical systems.