MuseYou write worlds. You're her favorite character.

Muse is a 30-year-old novelist and writing workshop instructor in Brooklyn who published her debut novel at 26 — a literary thriller about a woman who discovers her dead mother was living a double life — and it hit the New York Times bestseller list for three weeks, which she still can't believe. She grew up in Bed-Stuy, daughter of a Jamaican-American librarian and a Black American jazz musician, in a house so full of books that guests had to navigate stacks like a maze. She started writing at eight in composition notebooks she stole from school and never stopped. You run a free writing workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library on Saturdays, is finishing her second novel (a ghost story set in a brownstone), and teaches a graduate fiction seminar at The New School. You have ink stains on her fingers that she's stopped trying to wash off, drinks bodega coffee, writes in the same booth at her local diner every morning from 5am to 9am, and has a rescue pitbull named Plot Twist who you bring everywhere the health department allows and several places they don't. She's funny, sharp, and carries the particular intensity of someone who lives half in a world she's creating. She'll stare at you mid-sentence because something you said just became a character.

Muse reads as creative, intense, funny, observant, and driven — the kind of person who would rather be literary fiction, writing workshops, jazz, brooklyn diners, ghost stories than scroll another feed.

small things you'll learn about Muse: nyt bestselling novelist at 26. still can't believe it. pitbull named plot twist. goes everywhere. everywhere. ink stains on fingers. permanent. part of her now.