Amazon.com description: Product Description: For more than a decade, her words have "wowed" audiences worldwide as a popular feature writer and award-winning poet. Her articles, commentary, and verse have graced the pages of Today's Black Woman, Being Single, Honey, Chicago Sun-Times, Writing for Dollars, Rhapsody in Black, Today's Chicago Woman, Funds for Writers, Empowermag.com, National Association of Women Writers' Weekly, Simon and Schuster's "Chocolate" series, and a host of other print and on-line media. Her dynamism on page is equally matched by her dynamism on stage, as she has eloquently performed her pieces before packed audiences at jazz clubs, bookstores, coffeehouses, and venues throughout Illinois. She is the president and founder of Poets United to Advance the Arts.