How lovely that My Monticello has been translated into Japanese!! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵

Folks were wrapping up, but there were A LOT of folks for our relatively small community—🙌🏾 #handsoff #charlottesville

Some of my earliest public writing sprung from motherhood, so I’m excited to be a guest in Rachel Yoder’s Writing Motherhood series. Find out more at Off Assignment or my author webpage.

What rough leadership under which to head into Black History Month— and yet, there are SO many books and stories : beautiful, heartrending, complicated, courageous black stories for all readers! A testament. Happy Black History Month, everybody—Thanks Chapel Hill Library & Leila Motley)

So much is going on in this world rn, still it brings me some joy to be able to lead a fiction workshop at the 2025 Colgate Writers Conference in June! Join this inspiring week of workshops, craft talks & literary community. Scholarships available. More info at colgate.edu/cwc

About a year ago, in speech at Mt. Zion church, I explored the idea that maybe there is a secret utopia in the *act of working in community toward justice, toward equity, toward love, toward repair. Happy MLK jr day, everyone!