Josie is a new Southern author who lives outside Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to commencing her writing life, Josie was an attorney and social worker who spent her career addressing child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault,
and human trafficking.

After moving to the South from the Midwest, she became deeply interested in the Gullah culture and race-based slavery. Following a career fighting injustice, Josie chose to put pen to paper and focus on one of the greatest injustices of all time,
slavery in the antebellum South.