"I write stories that don't behave: stories that sometimes start as memoir, and then become monologue, and then swell into music, and sometimes end up onstage as theater. I’m drawn to the places where performance becomes a way to tell the truth. PERIOD. My creative practice lives in the overlap:  journalism and folklore, confession and critique, Black women’s interior lives and the public myths built around our bodies, our cities, our families. I work across forms because life does.… more