Female, Gifted, and Black: Awesome Art and Literary Pioneers Who Changed the World (Black Historical Figures, Women in Black History)

About Becca AndersonM.J. Fievre

Becca Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher's side of her family led her to become a women's studies scholar and the author of The Book of Awesome Women. An avid collector of meditations prayers and blessings she helps run a Gratitude and Grace Circle' which meets at homes churches and bookstores monthly in the San Francisco-Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice with helping her recover from cancer and wants to share this with anyone who is facing difficulty in their life. Author of Think Happy to Stay Happy and Every Day Thankful Becca Anderson shares her inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com/ She also blogs about Awesome Women like those in her book Badass Affirmations at https://theblogofawesomewomen.wordpress.com/ Born in Port-au-Prince Haiti M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami. M.J.s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps in Haiti for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013 One Moore Book released M.J.s first childrens book I Am Riding written in three languages: English French and Haitian Creole. In 2015 Beating Windward Press published M.J.s memoir A Sky the Color of Chaos about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. M.J. Fievre is the author of Happy Okay? Poems about Anxiety Depression Hope and Survival (Books & Books Press 2019) and Badass Black Girl: Questions Quotes and Affirmations for Teens (Mango Publishing 2020). She helps others write their way through trauma build community and create social change. She works with veterans disenfranchised youth cancer patients and survivors victims of domestic and sexual violence minorities the elderly those with chronic illness or going through transition and any underserved population in need of writing as a form of therapyeven if they dont realize that they need writing or therapy. A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University Massachusetts; Howard University Washington D.C.; the University of Miami Florida; and Michael College Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference AWP) M.J. is available for book club meetings podcast presentations interviews and other author events.