Antoinette has always written. Not for applause, not for publication — but because the words needed somewhere to go. Poetry became her way of processing a world that doesn’t always make space for truth. Her work covers the terrain most writers avoid: the texture of discrimination, the complexity of loving imperfect people, the terror and freedom of becoming who you actually are. She writes in plain language with profound weight — nothing performed, everything felt. 

Publishing under the name J’Kai Poetry, she has built a following of readers who return because her words find them — in the quiet of a sleepless night, in the middle of a grief they can’t name, in the exact moment they needed permission to feel exactly what they’re feeling.