I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in no position to tell women of other cultures what that equality and freedom should look like.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Violence is a common part of far too many women's lives.

Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American literature. All of these things are part of who I am and what I write.