Little Gardens
“The older I get the more constricting I find the hetero mask to be. Committing this to paper is, then, something of a coming-out party.” More
The Path to Remembering
“I realized I wanted to write for women like me, women who want to read stories about dark, black ingenues; women who want to remember how ancient and divine… More
The Poetics of Sovereignty: Embracing Self-Determination on the Page
“My work is informed by my experience as a modern Tongva person who grew up in Tovaangar. In my poems, I start with where I’m from because it colors… More
Leave Expectations at the Door
“The book is still in progress. Some days it’s still so hard to put words on the page, but I’m not mad about any of this. I have grown… More
Tiger Heads All the Way Down
“I may not know how to finish but I do know how to start. If I start again and again, maybe my story will be tiger heads all the… More
PEN America Launches We Will Emerge, A Multi-Vocal Statement of Solidarity
"We designed this project with a sense of hope, or perhaps a delusion, that somehow we will emerge from this chaos." More
Unwrapping
“Our stories are our gift, and what the Emerging Voices Fellowship does is help people like me, underrepresented people, marginalized people, figure out how to access our stories.” More
Commitment To The Prison Movement Requires Belief In Incarcerated Citizens Capacity To Transform The World
"A commitment that demands belief in the capacity of incarcerated citizens as agents who can transform not only retributive justice into something people oriented, but the world as we… More
The PEN Pod: In This Together with M. NourbeSe Philip
“It’s true that we are all in this together, but there’s a sense in which we have not been in this together.” More
Triple Sessions
"I grew up at perhaps the tail end of the “spare the rod, spoil the child” generation, so violence was normalized and mitigated with life lessons." More
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