Welcome. I’m Sharifa. I’m a writer, speaker, and singer based in Dallas, TX.

I communicate to exhale, working out being a misfit, alien, idealist, beloved. This is how I do tenderness in a concrete world.

Here's my more "official" bio:

Sharifa is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, born and raised in New York, and currently residing with her family in Dallas, TX. She graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor in African American Studies before earning a master in theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. Sharifa is a conglomeration of intersections: Bronx wisdom and prep-school code-switching; smoke shop Now-and-Laters and church peppermints; hip-hop and hymns. Intersections can be a mash-up—rife with both tragedy and opportunity; places of pause within movement. Sharifa aspires to use writing as a vehicle that moves readers to intersect with the sacred and the honest. She co-authored Only Light Can Do That: 60 Days of MLK Devotions for Kids, contributed to the book Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, & Marginalized Women of the Bible and Rally: Communal Prayers for Lovers of Jesus and Justice. She is currently writing her first book. Sharifa is married to a Renaissance man, and mother to two lively boys.