Tarnynon (Ty-yuh-nuh) Onumonu was born and raised in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the southeast side of Chicago, IL and is extremely proud of and humbled by her southside citizenship and West African lineage. Birthed from a Liberian mother and Igbo father whose families have both experienced extensive war trauma, she has been endowed with a diasporic experience in joy and pain that is atypical of most Americans. She draws from this experience to produce works  (written, visual and performance), which are both specific in their autobiographical nature as well as global in their subject matter of love, trauma and disorientation over the span of time and the reach of Western colonization and global Black femme cultural experience.