Denée DavisDenée Davis wears her three stars and two bars on her heart as a native Washingtonian. As a child, teachers recognized her ability to write and create in the second grade. Her teacher, Mrs. Jacobs, introduced the class to C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Wtch and the Wardrobe. The daily reading from that novel began a love of reading and fiction for Denèe. However, the storyteller in her comes from both sides of her ancestry. Her mother always had books by black authors. She now realizes her mother knew the school curriculum would cover the others. She exposed her to Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and countless poets. Eventually, the schools gave Ms.Davis Shakespeare, Judy Blume and Robert Frost. She never stopped reading. Miss Davis has been a life-long lover of fiction and fantasy; however, she saw very few people of color in these stories. She went to college to study filmmaking in Brooklyn, NYC. She's a cinephile, melophile, photographer and has been given the title of Fashion Yodea. In recent years, Afrofuturism and stories of her people have inspired her first novel, Princes and Savages. Read More Read Less