Latifa AyyubiUrban Fiction Author also known as street lit, is a literary genre set, as the name implies, in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realiti es and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for y urban fi cti on is usually life experience novels, focusing on the underside of city living. Profanity, sex, and violence are usually explicit, with Latifa Ayyubi not shying away from or watering-down the material. Upcoming books: The Take Down, The Take Down II, The After math, Karma Comes In All Flavors, Secrets In Our House and many more in this genre. The author is a mother that loves skating, swimming and outdoor sports and traveling, but writing isher first passion. Latifa also loves to hear back from fans. Latifa Ayyubi was born July 21st in New York City. Her parents were middle class black family that ran a soul food restaurant. Latifa who was always an avid reader began writing at age 15, mostly journals back then before signing with Sniper Music as a songwriter at age 20. Although, Latifa wrote a ton of songs, fiction writing was always in her blood. She wrote her first book, which was never published at age 22 but she never stopped writing. Latifa is now a signed writer by The Penguin Group/Random as a writer. Stay tuned Read More Read Less