Janelle Gray was born and raised in Dallas, Texas into an artistic and musical family. After seven years of working in corporate sales, Janelle quit her job to pursue writing full time. She moved to Colombia where she honed her fiction writing skills and taught English as a second language for three years. Her first fiction novel, Echoes of the Struggle, is required text for select high schools in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She currently resides in Texas where she continues to write as well as teach and tutor both English and Spanish. Janelle holds a bachelor's degree in Communication and Spanish.