We are reflections of God
because God is a reflection of us.
She is a philogynist (the rare opposite of a misogynist): she writes toward the women the world was built to condemn. In The Whorebeast, she reads the most reviled women of the Bible with love and refuses the verdict written over them, extending the same grace back to herself. The work moves where doctrine, desire, and the body meet.
Her practice is multimedia by design. Across poetry, sound, image, and film, she builds a single connected world that engages all the senses, including the sixth, toward one conviction: that erotic knowledge, the deep felt intelligence of the body, is the generative force beneath every other kind of knowing. Her debut collection, The Whorebeast, arrives in 2026, and from there a photography collection and a short film.
When Nathania was sixteen, her English teacher invited her to research the psychological effects of predominantly white schools on Black girls and present the findings at an education conference. That invitation — to treat her own life as something worth studying rigorously — ignited her life’s work.
A poet, essayist, and advocate for global literacy, restorative justice, and healthcare access, she writes toward the communities the system forgets. Her work is rooted in on-the-ground experience: she has served as a public health coordinator, interned with the Hennepin County Department of Community Corrections, and founded Construction Literacy, a nonprofit building libraries and community infrastructure in Togo.
As the youngest member of her city’s budget advisory commission and a member of its racial equity advisory council, she brought that same attention to the machinery of local government. She is a first-generation American of Togolese and Ghanaian heritage based in Minneapolis.