Eartha Watts Hicks is the founder of Earthatone Books. She is a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) artist/entrepreneur and a fiction fellow of the Hurston/Wright Foundation and NCI Retreat for Writers of Color. A PR writer and affiliate of BlackPR.com, she also leads writing, self-publishing, and publicity workshops for the New York Public Library, The National Writers Union, and The New York City Parks Department. A contributing editor for Harlem World Magazine, Eartha is the NAACP award-winning author/publisher of Love Changes, Graffiti Mural, the A Planner Is A Girl’s Best Friend series of planners, calendars, and journals.