about me

I am a Buckeye nut, living in sunny San Diego for the last six years. I graduated from The Ohio State University in 1999 with a B.A. in Strategic Communication and a double Minor in Political Science and Spanish Education.

As my mom puts it, before I even knew how to write words, I would draw picture stories. In elementary school, I wrote stories during indoor recess and read them to my friends and classmates. I am currently pitching five children stories (written in poetic verse) that I first wrote back then and have updated them for publication. My agent and I are in talks now with a few publishers interested in those books.

I am a poet at heart and started writing poetry in the 7th grade. I won second place in a statewide poetry contest that year. That poem, as well as others I have written, have been published in my local and school newspapers. Later, I wrote, directed and produced a play my senior year in high school entitled, "A Clean Heart."

In college, I entered The Ohio State University African-American Heritage Festival Poetry Slam and tied for first place with my poems, "The Birth of Autumn" and "It's 2:00 p.m. and I'm Still in Bed." My senior year in college, my poems were accepted in the Columbus Fine Arts Festival.

I am a creative writer with great ideas, now putting them on paper. I am a poet, a scholar, a political junkie. This first book is a non-fiction memoir about an event that most will find hard to believe but is absolutely true.

The other books I write vary from drama to comedy to thriller. I have been writing my entire life and am finally taking the time to finish a full-length novel and have it published. Hopefully it will be the first of many.

I am very busy, so I will try to get to your books whenever I can.

I am only backing books that I have actually read and liked, so please do the same for me. Thanks

favourite books

Dr. Seuss & Mother Goose

my websites

http://storyteller2010.wordpress.com     http://www.examiner.com/populist-in-san-diego/mali