"Locke sought a roomier notion of Black identity that could allow the queer and the unfixed notions of sexual identity to lurk if not flourish." Read More
"I Can’t Date Jesus is my journey of not just accepting myself as a gay man, but learning to actually enjoy it; by that I mean, overcoming my fear of intimacy that started with an early exposure to HIV and was magnified by being raised by a devout Catholic." Read More
Black LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation is a game-changing book focused solely on the health of Black LGBT people Read More
"I feel like fiction is still my number one love, but TV is an excellent side hustle, and I'm learning so much and becoming really invested in it. It's a fun, collaborative industry, while writing fiction and poetry is so solitary. I love doing both." Read More
"Often I think that the whole country lets itself off the hook with this notion that the South—or any rural place—is more homophobic or racist or misogynistic. What I mean is that the rest of America is far more like the South, or rural places, than it would like to admit, and it holds up real progress when people deny that." Read More
"I’m human and so I’m often grossed out by myself, by my thoughts and actions, and scared of what people will think. But I’ve also found—through trial and error—that the best place for me to get to in a story is that gruesome little ledge." Read More
"I’m interested in what it looks like to stand tall in difficult feelings: embarrassment, love, anger, desire, cowardice, even joy which can be difficult too." Read More
"As a poet who came to prose after 15 years of writing poems, I’m always paying attention to words, to sound and rhythm, to images and metaphors, as well as ideas and arguments." Read More
"None of the categories we depend on are ever fully adequate to represent us, so poetry must always find ways to represent us, whatever we are, that go beyond ready-made language." Read More
"Things have so many edges, so much nuance, and that's why poetry's so beautiful, because you can relate to something that was really quite disturbing or dark, and approach it almost in a tongue and cheek manner." Read More
