I write queer Black Romance because I’m a queer Black romantic. As a young child, I didn’t understand that my urge to write came from the need to escape. I would spend hours in my bedroom weaving stories that highlighted love and focused on that undeniable feeling of belonging. The first song that ever made me want to fall in love was Gotta Be  by Jagged Edge. I was only twelve, but I wondered what it would be like to fall in love. I longed for that feeling—to experience the emotion of...