I am a Research Associate for UPMC from Moon Township, Pennsylvania who has been writing poetry for the last ten years. While in college, I was an editor-in-chief of my campus’s Literary Magazine. I edited the magazine for three years and we always produced well-received issues. I have had my poems published in the e-zines Holler, The Writers Crib, Subjective Substance, Now and Forever, Nubian Mindz, MagNetique, Timbooktu, Confused In A Deeper Way, The Soul of Pittsburgh, The Underground Window, The Noyse Magazine, Sage of Consciousness, You Make It Beautiful and the Canadian E-Zines Poetry Stop and 3 Cup Morning. I contributed a biography on Mildred D. Taylor to the Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [Two Volumes], a reference work that will be published by Greenwood Press in 2007. I also contributed a biography on Paul Laurence Dunbar to An Encyclopedia of African American Literature, published by Greenwood Press in 2005.