About the Author

Joya Goffney grew up in New Waverly, a small town in East Texas. In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items, like "hug a random boy" and "eat a cricket," which inspired her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside to attend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides.

Reviews

"Acute portrait of agency, hope, and intergenerational trauma by Goffney" -- Publishers Weekly"Add this title to collections where romance is in high demand." -- School Library Journal