Nonfiction Projects
My work examines how identity is shaped within families, institutions, and place. Through narrative, archival research, and interviews, I explore how race, belonging, and social classification structure everyday life—and what becomes visible when inherited narratives are questioned.
I am particularly interested in how personal narrative can function as a form of civic inquiry.
Flood City
Flood City is a hybrid memoir / civic inquiry currently in progress. Set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania—known as “Flood City”—the project examines how identity was engineered within a single four-block radius, where proximity, civic myth, and inherited silence shaped race, kinship, and belonging across generations.
Blending archival research, oral history, and embodied narrative, the book asks what becomes visible when the structures that organized identity begin to erode.
The Colors of Love: The Black Person's Guide to Interracial Relationships
Based on interviews with hundreds of interracial couples, The Colors of Love: The Black Person’s Guide to Interracial Relationships explores how intimacy, family life, and partnership unfold within the realities of race in the United States.
