Tanesha Barnes is a native of Columbia, Mississippi and currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee. She writes to promote self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-love through the various seasons, highs, and lows of life for women of color.

Dear Broke Black Girl by Tanesha Barnes is a poetic novel that tells her story and provides open letters to women who experience or have experienced emotional, financial, relational/social, and institutionalized brokenness.

Sharing stories of experiences and personal triumph has the potential to give hope, to inspire, and to help change lives.