In 2017, I founded the Aya Collective (formerly called the Kinky Curly Theological Collective) as a space for Black women to come together and write. In the first few years of this collective, we focused on community building and writing. In 2020, I launched the publishing arm of our organization - Aya Media & Publishing, and published our first text the Gospel According to a Black Woman that same year.

Since 2020, we have published several texts including:

• Let the Black Women Say Ase’ (Anthology, 2022)

• Book of Poems Written by an Eight Year Old (Adedayo, 2023)

• Incomplete Stories: On Loss, Love, and Hope (Aya, 2023)

• Finding the Voice Within (Anthology, 2024)

• Reconsidering Eve: Towards a Deepened Consciousness (Aya, 2024)

• Reconsidering Eve: The Experience (Aya, 2025)

• Remembered and Living Text: Black Women Living with Endometriosis (Thomas-Kpetay and Elder, 2026).

To purchase one of our texts, visit our website at www.ayamediapublishingllc.com. If you are interested in publishing your text, email me at ebony@ayacollectivemn.com.