She has previously written nonfiction works, as well as adult and teen fiction under the name ReShonda Tate Billingsley.

The film adaptation of her sophomore novel Let the Church Say Amen, directed by Regina King and produced by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah, originally aired on BET.

[3] In 2014, Tate co-founded a publishing company, Brown Girls Books, with author Victoria Christopher Murray.

[5] Tate previously worked for NBC affiliate KFOR[6] in Oklahoma City.

She moved to Arkansas at a young age and spent most of her childhood in her mother’s hometown of Smackover.