Archive - May 27, 2014

When I was little, I was always that girl who knew that she wanted to spend her life telling stories. I had never met a writer then. In fact, I did not see a writer face-to-face until poet/writer/teacher Nikki Giovanni came to Spelman College when I was a senior. However, I grew up in Macon, Georgia, a mid-sized town in the South, in the 1950s and 1960s, surrounded by and immersed in African-American culture that[…]

Hi my people, Just wanted to remind you all that today, May 26, and all this week, I’ll be blogging about my writing and answering questions about why I write what I do, my process, what I’m working on right now. Join me here and leave a comment. Tananarive Due invited me and Daniel Jose Older on The Writing Process Blogging Tour this week and got me blogging again. Thanks, dear! Here we go!