<strong>Queen Ex </strong>is a Los Angeles-born poet who started writing at age 12 and performing spoken word at age 16 in Oakland. Three years later, her writing became works of fiction that had remained unpublished as she pursued a communications career in her hometown. As a poet she toured the L.A. indie scene, won a Rising Star Music Award in 2014, was briefly an erotic fiction ghostwriter, and worked with various entertainment professionals while studying media communications at Full Sail University. <br><br>Through the Community Literature Initiative Program, Queen Ex has become the author she has dreamed she could be, publishing her first collection of fiction, HIDDEN MOMENTS, with World Stage Press in 2019. She currently lives in Los Angeles and expects to publish more works in the future.<br><br><em>"As a poet and an optimist, I believe I can change lives through unique outreach and communication skills. I have seen it happen firsthand. My story has value and I make it a priority to help others tell theirs." - QUEEN EX</em>
