Akilah Brown
Award Winning Writer and Educator
Akilah Brown is an award-winning professor who teaches first-year composition, creative writing, children’s literature, and mystery and crime fiction. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; a Master’s degree in English, Creative Writing (Fiction) from Iowa State University; and ABD status in the PhD program at the University of Florida in English, Children’s Literature. In 2023, she won a fellowship to be Writer-in-Residence at the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency. Originally from Bladensburg, MD, she now lives and writes in Los Angeles, CA.
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You Take the Good, You Take the Bad , You Take Them Both and There you Have…#SOL26
Today is the last day of the Slice of Life challenge, and I obviously did not post every day of the challenge. In fact, my last post was twenty-one days (three weeks!) ago. Things just got very hectic around here, so I wound up tapping out, I will be honest…
More Birthday Fun #SOL26
And the week of birthdays continue! Today is my friend’s Sam’s birthday, and she texted me this morning to ask if I still wanted to go to dinner to which I, of course, said yes. After driving for an hour (ah, bless you, LA traffic), I got to her place…
Lost #SOL26
My daughter turned 27 today. I feel like every year on her birthday or Mother’s Day, my daughter likes to remind me that I have a child so will never stop being a parent. This year, it happened a little after midnight. I texted her to wish her a happy…
Never Satisfied #SOL26
I have a problem. It’s happened once or twice before that I redo my website–actually, have someone redo my website, let’s be real–and then, I see a really cute layout somewhere out there and want to change mine. Or, worse, I want to go back to how it was before.…
A real slice of my life #SOL26
I was feeling overwhelmed (again!) by this challenge, even though I do enjoy it. I even thought about skipping today’s post, but then I did some morning pages-type writing and remembered I do have a slice of my life to share today. The day did not go as planned. First,…
Day 6 #SOL26
Have I already hit the wall? I might have. But the wall isn’t the challenge itself, just that I’m tired of being on the computer. I’m going to a seminar so will miss class on Monday, the 16th. That means I’ve spent most of my waking hours today prepping. I…
Stand-Up #SOL26
Tonight is my encore comedy performance, which I have titled Oops…I’m Doing It Again. When I did my first stand-up show in December, it was the culmination of a 10-week class, and I said I was good on stand-up and had no plans to do another show. I had only…
Samoas #SOL26
It’s Girl Scout cookie season and time for me to face the truth about my daughter: she is a Samoas fiend. I came home one day, and my daughter said, “I bought some Samoas. I left you the last row.” To which I said, “Thank you, I know that was…
Quantum Leap Moments #SOL26
I’m currently listening to Leslie Jones’s book, Leslie F*cking Jones. (It’s awesome and you should listen to it because she goes off script A LOT.) In the book, she talks a lot about Quantum Leap moments (yes, based on the TV show), what she describes as the moments she wishes she could…
Long Day #SOL26
I was thinking about posting ALL DAY and then I got home and forgot until I looked at the clock just now (11:34 p.m.). Sigh. Part of the reason I got sidetracked is that I get off work at 8:20 p.m. and then I got home and decompressed by…I don’t…
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
