Time Goes in a Circle, page 201 is an excerpt from my memoir, WE WHO WALK THE SEVEN WAYS (University of Nebraska Press).
I'm honored to have my work included in this powerful collection of 29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world.
WRITERS ON MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY & BOTH/AND BELONGING
Beacon Press-Penguin Random House.
Edited by Anne Liu Kellor
Available on October 13, 2026 PRE-ORDER
Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots complicates the narrative around race and identity—dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one “right” or singular way for folks to identify.
Born out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellor’s annual writing workshop, Mixed Roots collects 29 essays (plus additional resources) infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, history, and paradoxical truths—going beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives.
We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiences—Mixed Roots says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.