Gary Lloyd James

With a passion for speaking out on issues that society would rather sweep under the carpet, Gary James's voice has always been in the right place. In 2011 he was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. award for his work on domestic violence. and for speaking out on violence against women in particular. Born on the beautiful island of Jamaica, James migrated to the United States in 1995. Always concerned about the state of the human consciousness, he found himself on a quest for a medium in which he could reach those who felt they had no voice. Poetry was that medium. James published A New Horizon in 2007 and has never looked back. He felt poetry was too broad a genre, and frustrated by the look on the average person's face when he mentioned the word poetry, he set out to create his own genre and called it stoetry. Stoetry has since become a clothing line, and now, with this novel based on one of his poems, he has launched the other part of his brand, where stories are inspired by poetry. With so many social ills, there is no shortage of issues to address. It's Okay to Live Again looks at the issue of suicide from a slightly different angle.