Bio for Author Anya Nicole

Being raised in the ghetto of West Philadelphia has not stopped this young writer from seeing her dreams come to fruition. Anya Nicole was unwavering in her strength to preserve to make life better for herself.
Anya’s childhood was spent with her older sister in a single parent home. Watching her mother go from job to job and use welfare to fill in the gaps had a profound effect on a young Anya. Her mother did her best to ensure her daughters grew up right and had all that the needed. In turn the aspiring author took that lesson and applied to her own life. She received a BA in Communications from Temple University and a Masters in Health Education from Saint Joseph’s University. It has always been Anya’s hope that she would create a life that would be comfortable for herself and her family. She knew that her vast education would help her provide that life.
Yet while fostering her desire for a sound education the joy of writing entered her life. In the 3rd grade when Anya won a poetry writing contest she suddenly realized that words brought her world to life. She had found her calling when she discovered that through words she would be able to bring her life to the eyes of others.
Anya has said, “I am a writer who writes about what she sees and encounters. I want people to see what I see.” That is exactly what she has been able to do. She brings street life situations and methodically interlocks them with drama and intelligence. She has spent most of her time fine tuning her ability to describe stories in vivid detail. This was something that became of great value to her when she began writing for Philadelphia Metblogs.
While Anya has always been set on making her dreams come true she has had an amazing amount of support behind those dreams. Writer, Karen Quinones Miller has been a true mentor and believer in Anya’s ability to succeed. Karen comes in second to Anya mother; who Anya counts as the loudest person in her cheering section.
With so many behind her and while admiring Urban Literature writers such as Nikki Turner, and Kwan Foye, Anya became driven to finish her first manuscript.
Yet life continued to intervene, Anya proved she wouldn’t be broken. Although to some people, difficulty in life and seeing people that she loved struggle and die everyday may have been a negativism, to Anya it was fuel for the fire. “Growing up not knowing where we were going to get the money to pay the electric bill or put food on the table; and seeing my mother put cardboard in her shoes to preserve them so we could have new shows and clothes on our back, changes a person.”
After college was over, and her success had been acknowledged by her friends and family, society still threw Anya a rough deal. While working at a store as a checkout clerk she was looked down on, disrespected and robbed at gun point. “There were people throwing their change at me and looking down at the job I did. Here I knew that I was just as educated as they were. I hated it, knowing I wanted to write and being stuck behind a counter bagging groceries.”
Even though she had hit a low point Anya looked back to the determination that her mother had raised her to have. It was always her intention to become a role model for other young kids in the ghetto, so that they would know they too could be more than society suggested to them. She was able to find a job in her community and began focusing her attention on finishing her first novel, which she completed in 2006.
Her novel Corporate Corner Boyz pays homage to Anya’s knowledge of the streets and her vast college education. This is an author to watch and a woman who is destined for more than greatness can define.