Her novels and non-fiction essays are known for exploring themes of love, identity, the impact of migration, and finding a sense of belonging in Canada.
[9] Canadian literary critics have lauded her fiction for writing "with such sensuality and grace that it creates a heady spell, drawing the reader into the center of the story", but January Magazine has also critiqued her work for having so many competing literary themes that her novels "lack a true magnetic center".
[10] The Canadian literary magazine Quill & Quire called her writing style "a mixture of polemic and memoir – that makes Prince's essays provocative and politically engaging - is not suited to fiction".
[11] However, other critics have compared her academic essays to her contemporaries bell hooks and Audre Lorde, noting "Prince references histories that are too often eclipsed or erased in accounts of African Canadians in the big city.
[14] Featured authors included Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Margaret Cho, Angela Davis and Vandana Shiva.
Prince recalls: "It finally penetrated my conscious that I was being told that my skin color made me an undesirable person' (29).