Joya Goffney grew up in New Waverly, a small town in East Texas. In high school, she challenged herself with to-do lists full of risk-taking items like 'hug a randomboy' and 'eat a cricket,' which inspired her debut novel, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry. With a passion for Black social psychology, she moved out of the countryside toattend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides.
Powerful, boundary pushing, and charmingly funny. * Camryn Garrett, author of Full Disclosure and Off the Record * Deeply empowering, sweet yet candid. A fearless story about the path to self acceptance. * Jenni Hendricks and Ted Caplan, authors of Unpregnant and Save Steve *