ABOUT

LaTonya Yvette (1989) is a Brooklyn-born multimedia storyteller and the writer of the newsletter With Love, L. Her artistic practice explores home, ritual, care, and the quietly radical ways that sustain and tethers communities across generations. Her book Stand In My Window (Dial Press, 2025), a lyrical essay collection, was praised by Publishers Weekly for its "insightful musings [that] brim with quietly radical insight." Writing in The New Yorker, Imani Perry notes that Yvette's reflections on gathering, domestic ritual, and beauty echo the traditions of Black elders who preserved meaning and dignity even in the face of Jim Crow, reminding readers that "we still need those kinds of rituals." Kirkus Reviews calls the book "a poetically reverent inspection of safety, embodiment, and inheritance through the lens of inhabiting space."

She is the author of Woman of Color (Abrams, 2019), for which she received the Breakout Author of the Year award at the 15th African American Literary Awards. The book was also featured in Jay-Z's personal bookshelf installation for the Brooklyn Public Library's Book of HOV exhibit, and is held in nearly 500 library collections worldwide, including NYU, The Cooper Union, The New School, Columbia University, Drew University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Watson Library. Stand In My Window is collected by prestigious academic libraries, including Princeton, supporting its use in classrooms, workshops, and community reading programs. She is also the author of The Hair Book (Union Square, 2022). All of her books are held in the Library of Congress's permanent collection, marking them as part of the nation's literary and cultural record.

Her work centers on creative stewardship and strategy across digital storytelling and editorial practice. Through editorial leadership and arts and culture editing, she helps organizations and businesses shape thoughtful, resonant narratives across platforms. She frequently guest lectures with creative writing and architecture programs on themes of home, land, and space, and teaches seasonal storytelling workshops rooted in slow observation, memory work, and the relationship between place and story.

For literary questions, please contact: Creative Artists Agency

To say hello: latonya@latonyayvette.com