Akilah Brown
Award Winning Writer and Educator
Akilah Brown is a blogger, multi-genre storyteller, and professor who was a 2023 writing fellow for the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency and a past scholarship recipient for the Rocaberti Writers’ Retreat. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Iowa State University, has completed doctoral coursework in children’s literature at the University of Florida, and is an alumna of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Originally from the Washington, DC area, she lived in Florida for over ten years before making her way west to Los Angeles where she currently lives and writes.
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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…
13 Random Things: Life Update Edition #SOL26
It’s the first day of March, so regular readers of the blog know what that means: time to decide at the very last minute to participate in the Slice of Life Challenge hosted by Two Writing Teachers. Hi. Since I have not updated my blog regularly since then (always a…
Eulogy #SOL26
My dad died on January 24. When I made it a goal to start posting more consistently again, I never expected those to be the first words I typed. I planned to talk about my goals for the year, maybe do a wrap-up of last year, but then my dad…
Course Prep Drinking Game #SOL25
I should be prepping and need to get some water in so, to practice productive procrastination, I’m posting/compiling the course prep drinking game I posted over on BlueSky when I was prepping for spring. This is the cousin to the grading drinking game, of course. Originally posted 01.30.2025-02.12.2025. I’m compiling…
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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
