About AMLD

A few years ago, during a dark season of depression, my therapist suggested I start writing down one small good thing every day. A stranger’s kindness. The smell of oranges. A sentence in a novel that made me put the book down and stare out the window. By spring I had a jar full of folded notes and a quiet happiness I couldn’t quite explain. Delight, I realized, is less about what happens to us and more about what we choose to notice.

A Million Little Delights grew out of that jar, and out of something I kept looking for and couldn’t find: a place for curious women that puts Black, Indigenous, and other women of color at the center, on the page and behind it. So I started making it myself: an independent literary lifestyle magazine and book club about books, film, literary travel and the creative life.

I hope it feels like a welcoming corner of the literary world. Somewhere to find a writer you haven’t read yet, your next favorite book, a place you want to wander, something to make with your hands, or just something good to read on a slow afternoon. Pull up a chair.

P.S. Every writer needs an accountability buddy. Mine is Charlie, my dog, who has slept through every single one of my deadlines. His process: sit directly on whatever I’m editing, stare at me until we go for a walk, and take full credit for any chapter that somehow gets finished. Best writing partner I’ve ever had.