Souraya Christine

Souraya was raised in a relatively low-income household, by a single mother, with one younger sister. Originally from Cleveland, OH, she lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and has resided in Las Vegas, NV since 2003. She endured a lot of trauma early in life and throughout her adulthood. It was during these times that she would often ask God exactly how strong she needed to be because it seemed as if the blows kept coming without any time for a breath in between. Throughout school, although “gifted” academically, she experienced many problems stemming from the traumatic events in her life, including alcohol, promiscuity, associating with the wrong people, near-death experiences, and becoming a single parent herself at age 16. She used these experiences to fuel her love for writing. She began writing poetry and short stories early in school and even had the divine opportunity to be introduced to Maya Angelou in elementary school.

Through many more traumatic and dramatic events, including multiple failed marriages, she is the proud parent of 3 adult children, and grandmother of 3 as well. Souraya is not proud of some of the events and decisions in her life, but she feels truly blessed to have lived the life she did, because to this credit, she has been led to a fulfilling relationship with God, and the opportunity to use these events to help others through her books. Her first book, entitled “When is Strong – Strong Enough….How to push through the pain”, chronicles the events that shaped her life. In addition to working full-time and being a single parent, she has obtained a Bachelor and Masters degree, owns and operates a phlebotomy and CPR training company, and Mental Health Coaching & Consulting firm, and looks very forward to a long career of providing her readers with stimulating and alluring works that will help fill the soul.