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 random boy' 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 to attend the University of Texas in Austin, where she still resides.
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