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Dywane Birch Revealed
About Dywane Birch
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What is your birthdate?:9/1
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Favorite job:Working with adolescents
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High school and/or college:Norfolk State University and Hunter College
Revealing Questions
- Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
- A. Full of lessons and blessings
- Q. What is your motto or maxim?
- A. Treat others the way you want to be treated
- Q. How would you describe perfect happiness?
- A. Perfect happiness is living and loving life without guilt or regret. It's being able to forgive others and letting go of negative energy and ill feelings. It's not expecting others to love you more than you love yourself. It's recognizing and realizing that you are worthy, you are beautiful, you are love!
- Q. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?
- A. Egypt
- Q. Which living person do you most admire?
- A. My mother
- Q. What do you regret most?
- A. I have no regrets
- Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?
- A. Singing
- Q. What’s your greatest flaw?
- A. Being too independent
- Q. What’s your best quality?
- A. My compassion for others
- Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?
- A. Counseling
- Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?
- A. trustworthiness,
- Q. What are your 5 favorite songs?
- A. A Song For You, For All We Know,
On Books and Writing
- Q. Who are your favorite authors?
- A. Anna J, Allison Hobbs, Risque and Velvet
- Q. What are your 5 favorite books of all time?
- A. Push
The Coldest Winter Ever
Addicted
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
Cane River - Q. Is there a book you love to reread?
- A. No
- Q. Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?
- A. Keep the pen flowin'!
- Q. What comment do you hear most often from your readers?
- A. Will you do a part three to Shattered Souls
- Q. How did you come to write Beneath the Bruises?
- A. Beneath the Bruises started out as a poem dedicated to women who had experienced domestic violence. I eventually decided to turn it into a book as a result of my work with the offenders of domestic violence.
I was inspired to write Shattered Souls during my time as a director for an adolescent crisis shelter. After almost ten years of working there, I would often wonder who and what some of these teens would become as adults. Then I started having dreams for three nights straight. On the third night, I woke up and started typing. Eight months later, my manuscript was finished.
