Stacy Hawkins Adams is an award-winning author and freelance journalist who crafts fiction and nonfiction that helps readers find relevance in their own stories. She has penned nine women’s fiction novels and one nonfiction devotional book. She also has produced a compilation of original quotes and musings in book form (Abound) and in a notecard collection that features the art of actress/author Daphne Maxwell Reid. Stacy’s novel Watercolored Pearls has been a featured title in college coursework; Coming Home was a Target stores “Recommended Read” and The Someday List was an Essence magazine bestseller. A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Stacy occasionally pens freelance articles for national publications and routinely teaches at writing conferences nationwide. She also mentors aspiring authors through her online membership group Focused Writers, which, under her tutelage, published an anthology of personal essays titled On Womanhood. Stacy recently released a one-poem chapbook titled The Pivot and is at work on a new novel. Learn more at StacyHawkinsAdams.com.