Introducing Bestselling Author Nina Foxx
Editor’s Note: (Foxx received a nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work)!
Nina Foxx is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and novelist that writes as both Nina Foxx and Cynnamon Foster. Her work has appeared on numerous bestseller lists around the country, and her films have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, and the Rome International Film Festival.
A mother of teens, she is an avid technology enthusiast that has authored multiple patents. She lives with her family near Seattle, Washington, where she works in Human-Computer Interaction for a major software company. Nina is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; The Links; The Girl Friends, Inc.; Jack & Jill of America; and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Human-Computer Interaction Special Interest Group. Visit her at www.ninafoxx.com or her blog at ninafoxx.blogspot.com.
Foxx’s Most Recent Novels Include:
“Momma set me on the jukebox.” So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love.
As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone (Brown Girls Publishing, June 24, 2014) is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life’s misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side. Momma: Gone was shortlisted for a Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
In Catfish (Brown Girls Publishing, March 12, 2014), best Friends Dana and Damika share everything about each other, because that’s what best friends do, right? But when it comes to relationships, the high schoolers are keeping secrets in cyberspace. After Boy Crazy Dana meets the “perfect” guy, she figures the only way to get close is to tell little white lies. As their relationship flourishes, an inappropriate photo sent for his eyes only…ends up going viral, and threatens Dana’s reputation and her future.
Tech nerd Damika is able to reinvent herself online and she’s created a cyber life that no one knows about but her. When she meets Rosheon, she’s thrilled at their budding relationship, until she discovers there’s lot more to him than meets the eye because just as she can reinvent herself….so can others. As the lies become unmanageable, can Dana and Damika dig themselves out of a web of a mess before it’s too late? In this page-turning novel, Nina Foxx dives into a world where nothing is as it seems and danger takes on new meaning in cyberspace.
Thirty-three female writers share their essays and letters—hilarious, heart wrenching, and everything in between—in this wise and poignant collection about mother-daughter relationships.
Whether they’re from the US, Caribbean, India, or the UK, all of the contributors to A Letter for My Mother (Simon & Schuster, April 8, 2014) share one thing in common: thoughts that have been left unsaid to their mothers and mother figures—until now. In this moving book, thirty-three women reveal the stories, reflections, confessions, and revelations they’ve kept to themselves for years and have finally put into words. Written through tears and pain, as well as joy and laughter, each offering presents the mother-daughter bond in a different light.
Heartfelt and deeply meaningful, A Letter for My Mother will inspire you to admire and cherish that special relationship that shapes every woman. Read Nina’s letter, “A Letter to My Once Mother-in-Law.”
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