Nika Michelle is originally from North Carolina and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Her love for books started at a very young age and inspired her passion for writing. Blessed with a vivid imagination, she would share her short stories with her classmates in middle and high school. In 2002, she graduated from Fayetteville State University with a BA in communications and English literature. During her time in college she completed her first novel, Forbidden Fruit, an urban tale that spins a web of love, lust, and greed. She became a high school English teacher, but decided to pursue writing full time in 2011. Since then, she has self-published multiple titles.