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: families torn apart by borders that someone else drew, traditions erased in the name of modernization, people who survived things that shouldn't be survivable.

I ended up in the United States. Became a software engineer. Built projects. But the stories kept running in the background like something I couldn't close. They didn't belong in a codebase.

I write fiction grounded in the realities my family and I have lived through. The stories speak from an African perspective heard in its own voice. I hope to look back one day and see my writing as a reflection of what I barely grasped in the moment, and of what I may never fully understand.

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