Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
South Carolina. I attended an open-air gang prison school like Steve Jobs named, Whitlock junior high. I was saved from most of the violence because I was in the gifted program and my older brother was the white male stabilizer of the school. He routinely sent groups to the ER daily. He fought usually multiple assailants twice a day.
When did you first start writing?
2001
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