narrative writing
novel
“This bracing first novel is an intimate and impassioned exploration of friendship, resilience, and the uneasy balance between loyalty and self-preservation...alonté skillfully balances moments of quiet humor with a searing portrayal of love, grief, and respectability politics in Black women’s lives.” - Booklist
Somewhere Soft to Land is available as a hardcover, e-book, and audiobook. You can find it at the following retailers:
Ad Libris
Bookshop.org
Amazon
Find other options here.
lyrical prose booklet
An exploration of non-dogmatic healing in four chapters:
sweat
tongue
bones
spirit
Use the contact form if you’d like a copy.
mixed media
“are ex - i” 2023, waist beads by AnywearintheDMV
“tongue” 2025, monotype
digital media
how long have i, 2022
it’ll hurt anyway, 2022
swell and slow, 2022