Dr. Ogden spent her early childhood in Honolulu, Hawai'i before moving to the Bay Area. She's spent almost every summer of her life traveling to southeast Louisiana where her father's family lives. She earned her Associate Arts degree from Skyline Community College, and completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Francisco State University with an interdisciplinary major in English, Theater, and Psychology, with a special concentration in African and African American Diaspora. Her Master of Fine Arts degree is in Creative Writing and American Literature, which she earned from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Dr. Ogden's Phd is in Theater History, Literature, and Dramatic Criticism with a special concentration in Women's Studies from Louisiana State University.  Dr. Ogden is a writer, director, essayist, poet, and playwright. Her work has appeared in national literary journals, and her plays have been staged at many university and community venues. She is an alumna of Teach for America, and works with the Kenyon Review Young Writers program each summer in Gambier, Ohio. Her creative pursuits are chronicled at EatThePaper.