Moses L. Howard

Moses Leon Howard is an American writer and educator who has been writing for children and adults for fifty years. A retired dean of a community college, biology teacher, assistant high school principal, and counselor/mentor for students at risk, he lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Mr. Howard has written four novels, three children's books, and numerous short stories, and a fictional biography about Nzinga Mbande, a woman who ruled for forty years in seventeenth century Angola.

In addition to his career as an educator in the U.S., Mr. Howard served as a Fulbright Fellow in Africa and spent ten years training medical technologists and preparing secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda.

Mr. Howard has also published children's books under the pen name, Musa Nagenda, including "Dogs of Fear" and "The Ostrich Egg Shell Canteen."