I am the author of Welcome Calm, Silence Tyrants: Adult Lullabies. I wrote Welcome Calm, Silence Tyrants in response to Toni Morrison's sage advice that we must write the books that we need to read. As a highly-sensitive person who foregrounds nervous system regulation, I have a long-standing obsession with lullabies; this enchantment has led to multiple visits to the Library of Congress for research, hours of listening to lullaby albums, as well as years of writing my own bedtime songs. Welcome Calm, Silence Tyrants is the fruit of those amusements.
I have a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary, and a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University. I am a former pastor for foreigners in Shanghai, and a #ChurchToo spiritual abuse survivor. My abuse survivorship not only causes me to repel against the model of leader-as-celebrity, but also spurs my love of lullabies.
I served as the final Poetry Editor for Geez Magazine. I have deep roots in Georgia, land of Muscogee and Cherokee. I currently live in Washington, D.C. on Nacotchtank land.
