Dahlia Ge'ez did not choose storytelling. Storytelling chose her on a veranda in Jamaica, where her grandmother's voice competed with crickets and tropical trees, and won.

Born of Jamaican roots and forged in the creative landscape of Brooklyn, New York, Ge'ez is a novelist, nurse, educator, and oracle. Known affectionately as Affa, she is also a mother, wife, and grandmother. The full architecture of Black family life, its tenderness, its complexity, its sacred ordinary moments, lives in her bones and flows directly onto her pages.

She earned her B.A. from Queens College and her M.S. in Education, spending years as both a nurse and an educator before understanding that every patient, every student, every hard and beautiful human encounter was not preparation for writing. It was writing.

Her creative process is not a practice. It is a spiritual experience. She writes from an inner knowing, discovering where the narrative is taking her alongside her reader. This is not a method. It is a calling. And it produces fiction that carries the frequency of ancestral memory, of things known before they are understood.

This ancestral connection is not metaphorical. This year, Ge'ez spent three months in South Africa on a journey that was simultaneously research, pilgrimage, and homecoming. She carries within her the capacity and the calling to tell the full, dynamic, layered stories of Africans, and the diaspora in all their complexity and fire.

The author of two completed novels and numerous short stories, Ge'ez is currently writing her fourth novel. Jerusalem is her most recent work, and first published book through Weaver of Words Book Publishing, her Brooklyn-based imprint. Her blog Wild Words continues to grow a community of readers drawn to her lyrical, diaspora-rooted voice.

Dahlia Ge'ez writes from Brooklyn, where she is surrounded by the warmth of her family and the boundless creativity that has always been, for her, as necessary as air.

Words are akin to air. Words weave worlds.