With my first novel, when I was having such a hard time letting it go, I remember my brother saying to me, “It’s just a record of your creative minds… - Danzy Senna

I think it’s always true for every writer that your debut novel stands on its own, but your second novel is always seen in relation to what came before.

...To grapple with race is not at odds or separate from the craft of writing fiction.

I wrote a pilot for a show that was based on my work. I wrote an original pilot for a limited series that is still out there being shopped around. … What I felt writing scripts is, I really like it. It's very interesting and sort of technical-feeling compared to writing novels. And I will continue to do it because it's a nice break between books, and it kind of can pay … to get a new stove in your kitchen, like there's actual financial benefits to doing it. But I think my soul is in the page and in writing novels. Being in control of the entire universe that I'm writing is really what feeds me on a much deeper level. And so I will never kind of fully abandon the written word. It just feeds me in a whole other way, but unfortunately doesn't literally feed me or my children.