Tonya Todd Actor, author, Podcaster of "The 52 Love Podcast"

Published: March 28, 2021, 9:26 p.m.

Tonya Todd is an author, actress, and Sin City cinephile, whose sundry background ranges from content writer to software programmer to booth babe. With a cast of characters as diverse as her careers, her fiction explores the infinite hues of what drives us all: relationships and desires.\nLack of diversity in literature inspired Tonya\u2019s stories. As a reader, she\u2019s yet to discover a satisfying narrative of mixed race characters or interracial couples; as an author, she aims to change that.\nShe has short stories in\xa0Tales from the Silver State IV, Authors Portraits LV,\xa0and\xa0Spooky Story Night: Volume IV. Her non-fiction is featured in NPR's\xa0Desert Companion.\nTonya serves on the board as Henderson Writers Group\u2019s Education Chair and coordinates their Dime Grinds, a program that exposes authors to the public via monthly coffee house readings. An active member in the writing community, she also belongs to The Las Vegas Writers Group and Writers of Southern Nevada.