Favorite authors:
Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, Audre Lorde, Jericho Brown, Natasha Trethewey, S. Pearl Sharp, Cynthia Manick, Clint Smith, Ta-Nehesi Coates, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Octavia Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Nikki Giovanni, Nikia Chaney, Nathalie Graham, Beverly Head, Tracy K. Smith, Lynne Thompson, Patricia Smith, F. Douglas Brown, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Aime Cesare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Tennessee Williams, Milan Kundera, Ada Limón