Your Qualifications:

Why I’m an Unforgettable Podcast Guest

I come to every conversation as a Southern Black woman shaped by the land, the cadence, the folklore, and the generational wisdom of the rural and coastal South. My voice carries the weight of ancestral memory and the clarity of someone who understands that the South is not just a region—it’s a cosmology. I am fluent in the spiritual, mythic, and cultural undercurrents that Black Southern women use to survive, heal, and create, and I bring that lens into every discussion of storytelling, identity, embodiment, and liberation. My Southernness is not aesthetic. It is epistemology. It is a way of knowing.

A Creator Standing at the Crossroads of Storytelling, Healing, and Social, Gender, and Creative Justice

As a Writing Doula, educator, certified workshop facilitator, and collaborative publisher, I move between craft, community, and cultural accountability with fluency. I don’t talk about writing as an academic exercise—I talk about it as a liberation tool, a lineage practice, as somatic, erotic ancestral technology, a way to call the self back home.

I guide writers, with an emphasis on Black and Brown; though I work with women writers across all race, genders, SES, sexuality, and creeds, through the work of returning to their stories without apology, shame, or performance, grounding everything in the spiritual intelligence of the body and the ancestral imagination of the South.

Leadership Rooted in Lived Experience

My authority is not theoretical. It is earned.
I am Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, a certified Amherst Writers & Artists facilitator, and the founder of Southern Momentum Publishing House—one of the few collaborative presses in the country intentionally designed to champion marginalized Southern voices. I navigate chronic illness and invisible disability while building literary ecosystems that center access, authenticity, and cultural truth. I offer a perspective grounded in resilience, clarity, humor, and hard-won wisdom.

A Creative and Spiritual Range Rarely Found in One Person

I speak easily across worlds:
literary craft
ancestral and spiritual practices
Black womanhood as cosmology
somatic healing and trauma-informed creativity
the erotic as power and imagination
publishing and entrepreneurship
DEI and systemic analysis
the realities of chronic illness in artistic life

Most guests know one of these languages.

I speak them all — fluently, honestly, Southernly.

And I do it with humor, sharpness, tenderness, and the kind of emotional intelligence that creates immediate trust.

A Voice Shaped by Ancestral Fire and Modern Craft

I bring a lineage with me: women who prayed and conjured and cooked and keened; women who wrote stories in the margins of their lives; women who survived what they were never meant to outlive. Their wisdom informs the way I teach, speak, write, and hold space.

When I talk about storytelling, listeners hear a Southern tradition braided with:

mysticism,
grief work,
sensual reclamation,
mother wound knowledge,
liberation philosophy,
and the musicality of a Black Southern woman unafraid to say exactly what she means.

What Podcast Hosts and Audiences Take Away

Whenever I sit down behind a microphone, I offer:
fresh language for experiences people haven’t named
a grounded blueprint for creative liberation
insight into the emotional and spiritual life of a storyteller
humor and candor that soften the hardest truths
a deeply Southern, deeply Black way of understanding the world

Listeners walk away changed—more awake, more connected to themselves, and more empowered to tell their stories with honesty and heat.