b. Buea, Cameroon

dartmouth college, B.A.

Born in Cameroon, I grew up across Belgium and The Gambia before moving to the United States as a teenager. Coming of age across three continents fundamentally motivates the stories I tell. I am drawn to African diasporic and transnational narratives because I have lived the disorientation, longing, and quiet reinvention that comes with crossing borders. My work seeks to portray Black people with full complexity, attentive to their senses, interior lives, and contradictions.

I am especially interested in characters who are tested by movement: whether one can renounce a country without carrying its ghosts, or enter a new nation without inheriting its particular madness and melancholy.

I live and write in Brooklyn, NY.