Upon taking over Heart of the City from Mark Tatulli in May 2020, they became the second nationally syndicated black nonbinary cartoonist, preceded in this distinction by Bianca Xunise only a month prior.
Growing up in St. Louis, Steenz was a fan of comics and cartoons that later influenced their work, including Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy, Curtis, Recess, Hey Arnold!, and Doug.
[5][6] Steenz contributed the short comic "The Update" along with letterer Melanie Ujimori to editor Taneka Stotts' Eisner- and Ignatz-winning Elements: Fire, and has also appeared in the anthologies Mine!
[1] On May 12, 2020, it was announced that Steenz would be illustrating and co-creating a graphic novel about the history of tabletop RPGs alongside writer Samuel Sattin; the book is estimated for a 2023 release date.
[9][10] The Beat reported that "Steenz is the artist on the award winning OGN Archival Quality, published by Oni back in 2018.
In February 2019, Steenz and Ivy Noelle Weir were named winners of the 5th Annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics for Archival Quality.