My award-winning trilogy of historical fiction: FOLLOW THE ANGELS, FOLLOW THE DOVES: THE BASS REEVES TRILOGY, BOOK ONE (2020) & HELL ON THE BORDER: THE BASS REEVES TRILOGY, BOOK TWO (2021) will be the basis for the Paramount+ miniseries "Lawmen: Bass Reeves" (dir. by Taylor Sheridan & starring David Oyelowo), airing in the fall of 2023. BOOK THREE is due out Oct 1, 2023.

Though enslaved for the first 22 years of his life, Bass Reeves rose to epic heights as the most successful and feared lawman in the Old West. The trilogy narrates his life story.

My newest book is a middle-grade novel, KUDZU'S ENORMOUS NEW LIFE, which features a cast of animal characters and an autistic boy who live on a small farm in the Mississippi Delta. Margaret McMullan, author of Where the Angels Lived and How I Found the Strong, said, "Think E.B. White and Beatrice Potter. Kudzu’s Enormous New Life will be a classic."

My other books include YOU/WEE: POEMS FROM A FATHER (2018) and SIDESHOW: STORIES, winner of Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Short Story Collection of the Year (2006). I earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas and a PhD in American literature/African-American narratives at the University of North Texas, and now teach creative writing and African-American literature at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.