Cover of Lionheart: The Joel Lomnick Story, Volume 1.
A memoir about survival, identity, faith, reinvention, and becoming.

Lionheart

The story behind the builder.

A memoir about survival, family, identity, faith, engineering, Black belonging, culture, reinvention, mentorship, and the unfinished work of becoming.

Memory does not arrive as a neat timeline. It arrives as weather, rhythm, rooms, and the people whose voices stay with us.

Lionheart holds the private and public parts of a life in the same frame: family and career, grief and humor, Black masculinity and tenderness, faith and doubt, technical ambition and the need to belong.

The previews below are invitations into the work, not substitutes for the full story.

Reading previews

Two volumes. One life still unfolding.

Volume 1 sneak preview

A public reading sample from the evolving Lionheart memoir project.

Volume 2 sneak preview

A public reading sample from the evolving Lionheart memoir project.