Background
She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn.
She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn.
She received a Bachelor from Wellesley College and an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
And has written two novels, (2008) and (2011) and also a digital short story called "Aftermirth". She is currently working on her third novel, a sequel to
confronts racism on a cotton farm on the Mississippi Delta in 1946. lieutenant was the 2008 NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association) Fiction Book of the Year and was named one of the Top Ten Debut Novels of the Decade by "Paste" Magazine.
Is a dystopian reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne"s The Scarlet Letter, set in a future theocratic America where criminals are punished by being "chromed" - having their skin color genetically altered to fit their crime - and released into the general population to survive as best they can.
