Playwright, poet, and essayist, Genara Cristina Necos is shaped by generations of Afro-Caribbean peoples who spilled stories of salt water, migration and care into her. Always swimming through her family's journeys between St. Kitts, the Dominican Republic and the United States, she conjures historically-layered portals of love, power, and ancestral memory across the African Atlantic. Genara’s plays begin as visual glimpses that she grasps and pours back onto the page, shaping them into textured worlds.

Deeply curious about the historical processes that inform the movement of Black peoples throughout time and place, Genara’s writing re-roots African-descended peoples to their own history, lands, and powerful assertions of self. With a deep interest in contrast—wealth and poverty, innocence and cynicism, loyalty and betrayal, she crafts narratives that challenge assumptions, elevates the interiority of those often written out of history — making way for new truths to resurface. At the heart of her storytelling is a desire to reclaim beauty, belonging, and complexity for people of African descent.

Genara is the mother of a charming, young man on the autism spectrum.