She found the job by meeting a man who worked for KTOO-TV while traveling with her friend on the ferry to Juneau.

[6] She received her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and her MFA from Hunter College in Manhattan.

[1][7] Greenidge has written nonfiction for outlets including Elle, Vogue, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

She received a 2018–2019 fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute, where she worked on "an untitled novel based in part on the life of Susan McKinney Steward, the first black female doctor in the state of New York.

[12] In a starred review by Publishers Weekly, the book was called "another genius work of radical historical fiction.