The following excerpt is from my essay, “The World Wants You to Make Beautiful Things,” anthologized in Pretty Little Brick(2024), a publication from the Free Black Woman’s Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Civic Practice Partnership.

The following excerpt is from my novelette, “The Swan,” anthologized in Speculative Futures (University of Alabama Press 2023) and nominated for the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for best Novelette…