“Writing has always been a form a therapy for me,” Darden recalls of her formative writing years. She completed two young adult novels before her seventeenth birthday. “Ever since I could remember, I was always nose-deep into a book. During high school, I chose a voluntary position as a library page to keep close ties with books as a way of fulfilling my community service obligation with the National Honor Society.”

Originally, Darden wrote as a hobby. She had never actually considered seriously publishing. It wasn’t until a fiery desire for writing overpowered her ordinarily diligent work habits. That urge propelled Darden to leave a career of seven years to fully concentrate on writing. “I’d been so sheltered with my job responsibilities, I didn’t realize that the market for African-American fiction was so vast,” she commented. Less than six months and many sleepless nights later, “All About Me” was born. 

Darden seeks to entertain and touch the lives of others through her writing. An avid reader of various genres, some of her favorite writers include Eric Jerome Dickey and Donald Goines. In addition, she enjoys horror stories and Greek mythology. Darden also heralds and holds respect for great Afro-American contemporaries such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and many more.

Darden is a graduate of Rutgers University, where she obtained a BA in English and Communications. A native of East Orange, New Jersey, she currently resides in northeastern Pennsylvania and is actively working on her next novel “Single as a Dollar Bill: Love Yourself First, the Rest Is Easy”, slated for release winter 2004. 

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