APA in text citations not working

Question

I'm struggling using the APA citation style, and would like to see in text citations in the form (Author, Date) in the text, but I either get an error compiling or {labelyear}{labelmonth} after every citation in my console.

Here is the top matter in my latex document... am I missing something/using contradicting packages?

Here is the code snippet.

\documentclass[11pt]{report} % Use the report document class if you're looking to include chapters, otherwise article is fine
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{csquotes}
%packages allowing for images to be inserted 
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{floatrow}
\graphicspath{ {thesisimages/} }
%packages for formatting Figures 
\usepackage[font=scriptsize]{caption}
\usepackage{mwe}
%packages pertaining to the bibliography

\usepackage[backend=biber,style=apa]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{thesisbib.bib}

%packages pertaining to formatting
\linespread{1.6}
\usepackage[a4paper, total={6.5in,9in}]{geometry}
%package for the degree symbol
\usepackage{gensymb}
%package for making subFigures(below)
\usepackage{subfig}
%package for including quotes (below)
\usepackage{dirtytalk}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{array}
%package for changing the line spacing in bibliography
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{setspace}
%package for including pdf packages
\usepackage{pdfpages}
%package for appendices?
\usepackage[toc,page]{appendix}

\begin{document}

These people said explained some things \cite{Haralick1979} \cite{Hodges2003}.

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Any help would be appreciated!