I've been writing since I was five years old. But my first published pieces of writing (two poems) appeared in my high school newspaper when I was 15. Although I have yet to publish my first solo book, I've been fortunate to have a lot of my creative and academic writing published in journals, magazines, anthologies, literature guides and encyclopedias like Poets & Writers, The Writer Magazine, Windsor Review, The Caribbean Writer, Passages North, Carolina Quarterly, Vwa: Poems for Haiti, and The Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers.