May 1, 2026
It gives us great pleasure to present Season 11, Episode 15: O’labumi Brown!
O’labumi Brown joins us to share her memoir Hairalujah. We discuss the art of moving between hardship and joy in memoirs. O’labumi shares some of her anecdotes and how the evolution of her hair marks the different points of her life.
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O’labumi Brown was born and raised in New York City, where she studied with Michel Marriott, whose memoir workshops were legendary. Brown, a memoirist, loves using metaphor to set a mood. Her short story “Romance on the Iron Horse” was published in Between the Covers: An Adult Romance Anthology, and her short story “Dragon Della” was published in ThereAfter Magazine. Her debut memoir Hairalujah traces the author’s journey of queer identity in the 80s and steps through allegory’s shadow to tell a story about the lessons she’s learned and how she rose from the rubble. O’labumi currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
