I have a passion for writing about Blackness, books, creepy stuff, and oldies music. I received my MFA in nonfiction creative writing from the New School and my BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before becoming a Tar Heel, I was born and raised in Connecticut, where I cultivated a healthy appetite for cinnamon and fall foliage. I live in Brooklyn with my husband and our growing collection of plants.

My debut novel The Other Black Girl was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a Hulu Original Series, which premieres September 13th, 2023. My other writing can be found in Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Guernica, the Rumpus, and the New York Times.

Randy Winston, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, is a 2016 graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. He is the creator of Milkshake Scholar, an online milkshake interview series, and Secretary on Orion Magazine’s Board of Directors. Randy also served as Fiction Editor at Slice Literary Magazine for six years and is currently working on his first manuscript of fiction and a memoir. Randy sits on the board for WriteOn, a fellowship program led by New School Fiction Coordinator and author, Helen Schulman. He holds a Bachelors in English & Professional Communication from Southern Polytechnic State University, now Kennesaw State University.  Full Bio on Center for Fiction.