Fiction is what I am mainly working on right now, encouraged by a novella once having been a finalist for something called the Wisdom Falkner Prize and having once been a fiction contributor to the Bread Loaf Writings Conference, which I loved, the way I always loved that first week of classes during college, when you were excited about what you were learning but had yet to start all that work.
Read a recently published short-story here.
Also very active in something called the Jay Project, which looks to educate the public on the prevalence of slavery in northern colonial America, acknowledge its ongoing legacies, and explore possible avenues for reparation and restitution. It was started by descendants of “founding father” John Jay, of which I am one, for better or for worse. Over the course of his lifetime John Jay owned seventeen individuals.
Very interested in questions of “What did they forget and when did they forget it?” when it comes to the awareness of the legacy of slavery in my family.