Kendra is a Black lesbian woman scholar, teacher, painter, poet who has been writing poetry, articles, and scholarly essays all her adult life. Her work has been featured in The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston;  Solace: Writing, Refuge, and LGBTQ Women of Color; and Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love. Kendra is an associate professor of English at North Carolina A&T State University, a wife, and fur mommy.