EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR TOMIKA REID

Published: Oct. 8, 2016, 1 a.m.

b"Tomika Yvonne Reid is 34 years old and a mother of two girls Isis, age\\xa013 and Iyanna, age 8. She was born in Brooklyn, New York raised in\\xa0Bedford-Stuyvesant. Tomika is the oldest of seven children.\\xa0As a teenager, Tomika expressed her feelings through poetry and\\xa0writing songs. In the beginning of her relationship with Isis\\u2019s\\xa0father, she was able to express how she felt through letters. She\\xa0also had the same drive with Iyanna's father. She felt like she can\\xa0let everything out through writing. When loved ones passed, she would\\xa0write a poem to express how she felt about that person and what they

did when they were alive. Tomika struggled and has been through many\\xa0trials and tribulations growing up.

She lost her first daughter's\\xa0father in 2003, her mom in 2004, and her second daughter's father in\\xa02011. It was very hard for Tomika to cope with all 3 deaths. She\\xa0allowed herself to put her faith in God and become more spiritual in\\xa0her life now than ever before. She felt writing would be the only\\xa0thing to help keep her moving forward in life. Tomika, also knew that\\xa0her daughters needed her most.

Tomika realized that God put her through everything she has gone\\xa0through, so she can share her testimony to help others overcome their\\xa0obstacles and those who have lost love ones. Tomika is currently a single mom raising her daughters alone. She is a Self-published Author. She will continue expressing her life experiences through\\xa0writing. \\u201cMemoir\\u201d Available Now- Amazon, and Barnes & Noble

Website: Iyannicepub.com\\xa0

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