She is the youngest child and only daughter of her father, who is a cook, custodian and bus driver. In 2010 she moved to Madison, WI to attend UW-Madison as a recipient of the First Wave Urban Arts Scholarship. In 2013, out of the writing workshops she participated in under the scholarship program, she produced and published a chapbook called Black November, a memoir of poems grappling with the absence and subsequent death of her mother, familial addiction and other childhood trauma. These themes, which have shaped her life, are what compelled her to begin writing poetry in her early teens and she hopes to inspire young black and brown women to view their art as a form of autonomy, to tell their own stories and their own words. She is currently teaching Special Education in Minneapolis and working on her next project.