"If ever I need you I know exactly where to find you…in my Bible that now sits by [my] bed," Marlon Wayans wrote in honor of his late father Howell Alexis Jones is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Her work has previously appeared on Variety, The New York Post, and The Wrap. Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Marlon Wayans shares how he was able to turn his grief into the premise for his fourth special.