[1] Rhodes-Pitts is from Houston, Texas, graduated from Harvard and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom.
[1] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue, and Essence among other publications.
Her 2011 book, Harlem Is Nowhere, is the first part of a planned trilogy on African Americans and utopia.
[1] The following books in the trilogy will concern Haiti and the Southern United States.
[1] Harlem Is Nowhere developed from Lenox Terminal, a 2004 essay Rhodes-Pitts wrote for Transition magazine.