Flowers is a fiction writer whose research is concerned with eighteenth and nineteenth-century social and cultural practices that emerged around tea, coffee, and wine. He is working on a novel about Duke Nelson, the Georgia okra farmer, winemaker, mechanical engineer, and inventor, as well as a collection of essays organized by wine-tasting notes.
His work has been published in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire and Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (Prestel, 2015). With Steffani Jemison, his performance Flight Theater was presented in 2024 at the Centre d’art contemporain Geneve and in 2025 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. He has also collaborated with composer and performer Justin Hicks. He is a co-founder of the writing community at Louis Place.