Rev Dr Queen Shamala Smith"Rev. Dr. Queen Ifawuyi Shamala Smith is an ordained minister and a metaphysical pratitioner. The author is also an intuitive artist, an anger management facilitator, an Ifa aborisha (studies nature in the tradition of the Yoruba people of West Afric) and a life writing teacher. In 2017, Queen Shamala published her first book, Blackbutterfly Soul Songs, which deals with the author's transformation in poetry. The Journey, the sequel to the memoir Soul Secrets, is in its last writing stages. The author has lived in California since the 60's, migrating from North Carolina. Queen Shamala worked as an English teacher and a secondary school icounselor for thirty years in the Los Angeles Unified School District. SHe is the mother of one daughter. An acclaimed chef, a grand daughter Malika Power Shakir and one grand son Malik Sykes. The author and her husband Kaliph, an astronomist/astrologist, reside in Log Angeles." Read More Read Less