I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

I'm not good enough as a person and definitely not good enough as a writer.

Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.

I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.