She studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at the University of California at Berkeley.
[1] She was a recipient of the Lombard Fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing.
Her second novel, The Revisioners, was named one of the most anticipated books of fall 2019 by Parade magazine.
[4] Sexton won the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association,[5] and the Crook's Corner Book Prize for A Kind of Freedom.
[7] At the 2020 NAACP Image Awards she was the winner in the Fiction category for her 2019 novel The Revisioners.