Sierra Kay
Sierra Kay’s love of the written word was predestined as a child. Her mother, concerned with the state of the public education system in Chicago, encouraged her to read anything, and everything, that she could get her hands on including the spelling bee word list that appeared in the Chicago Tribune each year.
Kay was weaned on books like, Anne of the Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery and A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. She was entranced with romance novels, which she would hide between her mattresses. However,her favorite book growing up was, Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller said to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Kay credits Aesop's Fables, in helping her to look for the lessons in every event, and in every story.
In 2011, Sierra Kay won a Nuyorican Poets Cafe Short Story Slam (www.nuyorican.org), in New York. In the fall of 2011, Kay released her first novel Unhinged, in which deception, friendship and betrayal took center stage.
In Kay’s second novel From Behind The Curtain, the reader will encounter the story of Dee, who spent most of her life on welfare, watching her often-absent father struggle with addiction and, lately, watching her mother’s battle with cancer. Dee had paid her dues. When her Auntie M brought her to live in Atlanta, things were supposed to get better. In Atlanta, Dee had new clothes, a full fridge, and her own bedroom. However, she soon realizes that even this comes at a cost.
Sierra Kay holds a M.A. in Writing from DePaul University in Chicago. Over the last ten years, she has been focused on writing and digital marketing for energy and financial companies in the Chicago area. Kay’s other creative writings include short stories and poems.
Kay was weaned on books like, Anne of the Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery and A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. She was entranced with romance novels, which she would hide between her mattresses. However,her favorite book growing up was, Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller said to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Kay credits Aesop's Fables, in helping her to look for the lessons in every event, and in every story.
In 2011, Sierra Kay won a Nuyorican Poets Cafe Short Story Slam (www.nuyorican.org), in New York. In the fall of 2011, Kay released her first novel Unhinged, in which deception, friendship and betrayal took center stage.
In Kay’s second novel From Behind The Curtain, the reader will encounter the story of Dee, who spent most of her life on welfare, watching her often-absent father struggle with addiction and, lately, watching her mother’s battle with cancer. Dee had paid her dues. When her Auntie M brought her to live in Atlanta, things were supposed to get better. In Atlanta, Dee had new clothes, a full fridge, and her own bedroom. However, she soon realizes that even this comes at a cost.
Sierra Kay holds a M.A. in Writing from DePaul University in Chicago. Over the last ten years, she has been focused on writing and digital marketing for energy and financial companies in the Chicago area. Kay’s other creative writings include short stories and poems.
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Unhinged
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Women's Fiction
Truth is relative. And Shelia’s been playing loose with it for years. She’s been lying to her husband about his attempts to get her pregnant. She’s been lying to her best friend about what really happened in Paris. She’s been avoiding her next door neighbor, Ayaan, ever since moving to Flossmoor, Illinois. The deception has worn her down to the point she is sitting in her home becoming a bit unhinged. The truth will bring the pain of the past into the present. But without coming clean, she can’t pull herself together enough to stop being a voyeur of and become a participant in her own life.
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From Behind The CurtainMystery, Suspense
Dee spent most of her life on welfare, watching her often-absent father struggle with addiction and, lately, watching her mother’s battle with cancer. Dee had paid her dues. When her Auntie M brought her to live in Atlanta, things were supposed to get better. In Atlanta, Dee had new clothes, a full fridge, and her own bedroom. However, she soon realized there were other issues. The most important was the apparent overdose of Pastor Clifton, her best friend and secret love. Pastor Clifton was trying to clean up the neighborhood. So how did he end up slumped over his desk—dead? And why, in a church full of gossips, was no one saying a word? In Dee’s world, that level of power wasn’t unheard of. But here, it was difficult to distinguish the players and, more importantly, who was managing them from behind the curtain.
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