About

I was born in Zambia, raised as a refugee from the wars that have defined Central and East Africa for generations. I grew up around stories that the rest of the world either didn't hear or didn't care to listen to — about families torn apart by borders that someone else drew, about traditions erased in the name of progress, about people who survived things that shouldn't be survivable.

I ended up in the United States. Became a software engineer. Built companies. But the stories kept running in the background like something I couldn't close. They didn't belong in a pitch deck. They needed a different kind of output.

I write about what happens when the ground shifts beneath a family and keeps shifting. About gods that choose you whether you're ready or not. About the distance between who you were raised to be and who war forces you to become. I'm not interested in clean answers — the stories I grew up with didn't have any.

My debut novel, Bleeding Roots, is the first in The Fruit of the Tree series — out now.