Kitt McClain

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Writer-🌸 Stories of healing, family, legacy, and love. Author of Becoming Liz, where Black women break cycles, rebuild sisterhood, and find love that feels like home. KittMcClainOfficial.com

Forest Park in St. Louis, featuring the Jewel Box, lakeside gazebo, wooded waterfall, and Saint Louis Art Museum. The collage introduces the Geography of Becoming series and reflects the park's role as a place of reflection and quiet in Becoming Liz.
"The Geography of Becoming Liz" series. A photograph of Forest Park in St. Louis shows a stone pavilion surrounded by water and greenery. Overlay text reads: "Forest Park. Every city has places where people go to be seen."
Book cover of Becoming Liz by Kitt McClain featuring a close-up portrait of a Black woman with natural curly hair and a composed expression. The background includes handwritten script and a torn paper effect revealing a muted city bridge below, suggesting contrast between control and something breaking beneath the surface.
Cartoon of a dog calmly sitting at a table while flames surround the room. The dog smiles and says “This is fine.” The image humorously represents Elizabeth Rutland in Chapter One of Becoming Liz—polished, poised, and completely in denial as her carefully planned life catches fire.
Photo of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, glowing against a deep blue evening sky. The stainless-steel arch reflects city lights along the riverfront, symbolizing ambition, resilience, and reinvention—themes central to Becoming Liz.
A close-up portrait of a Black woman with natural curly hair framing her face. She has smooth brown skin, glossy lips, and expressive dark eyes enhanced with eyeliner and long lashes. Her expression is calm but slightly guarded, suggesting quiet strength and resilience.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, illuminated at dusk with the city skyline and the Mississippi River in the foreground.
A female arm with a tattoo that reads 'Promise Kept' as if a quill wrote the words.