Kenya Rivers

Kenya Rivers started her writing at the tender age of ten penning songs, poems and short stories. Kenya was a shy daydreamer who used her imagination to create the many stories she was able to see so vividly. She won area writing contests that fueled her desire to put those thoughts on paper. With this new found passion Kenya was able to share her love with the world through writing. She was born in Chicago and raised in California. Kenya graduated and study to become a nurse at El Camino College.

Throughout the coming years she was diagnosed with Hypertension and Graves diseases and Chronic Migraines and a Pituitary Brain Tumor that affected her vision in 2006. Kenya was treated with serval different medications to shrink the tumor but, it was not successful. In 2007, she underwent brain surgery and it was a success.

In 2010, Kenya put her pen back to use and began writing her first story destined for the publishing world. Endless Nights, her first novel was release in 2014. Kenya doesn’t conform to one specific genre. She encompasses the reality of her life. She keeps the stories as true as they are given to her and lets her readers into her inner self putting her vulnerability on display.

In December 2012 Kenya was diagnosed with Leukemia (Blood and Bone Marrow Cancer), Fibromyalgia, which put her in a severe depression, and anxiety that took control of her body. Despite everything that she has endured in her life, Kenya continue to push through it all, as she fights every day and works hard to stay strong for her and her family. She stays focus in her writing as she uses it to inspire others. Kenya’s upcoming Adult Novel’s include Dangerously Obsessed and Love Ain't Suppose To Hurt which was released this year.

Coming Soon: I Don’t Belong To You, Intoxicated (A Love That Becomes Addictive), and more to come. Kenya was inspire to write a Leukemia Awareness Children’s book titled, I’m No Different From You. This book will be available winter 2016.