Nefertiti Austin

Author and memoirist Nefertiti Austin writes about the erasure of diverse voices in motherhood. Her work around this topic has been short-listed for literary awards and appeared in the Washington Post , Rebel Girls Boundless , Huffington Post , MUTHA , The Establishment , matermea.com, Essence.com, Adoptive Families magazine, PBS SoCal's To Foster Change and PBS Parents. She was the subject of an article on race and adoption in The Atlantic and appeared on HuffPost Live and One Bad Mother,...See more

Author and memoirist Nefertiti Austin writes about the erasure of diverse voices in motherhood. Her work around this topic has been short-listed for literary awards and appeared in the Washington Post , Rebel Girls Boundless , Huffington Post , MUTHA , The Establishment , matermea.com, Essence.com, Adoptive Families magazine, PBS SoCal's To Foster Change and PBS Parents. She was the subject of an article on race and adoption in The Atlantic and appeared on HuffPost Live and One Bad Mother, where she shared her journey to adoption as a single Black woman. Nefertiti's expertise stems from firsthand experience and degrees in U.S. History and African-American Studies. Nefertiti is a former Certified PS-MAPP Trainer, where she co-led classes for participants wanting to attain a license to foster and/or adopt children from foster care system. She is an alumna of Breadloaf Writers' Conference and VONA, and her first two novels, Eternity and Abandon, helped usher in the Black Romance genre in the mid-1990s. See less