Writer, poet, scholar, and a self-proclaimed lifelong learner and student of life. Influenced by such legends as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Marlon Riggs, Robert Hayden, Richard Wright, Walt Whitman, and Paul Laurence Dunbar as well as a huge fan of Terrance Hayes Tim’m West. Author of RHYTHMS – Poetry and Muse, the first place Gold Medalist winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) in poetry.