Poetry gave best-selling author her wings (+Video)
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, educator and cultural practitioner, Zenna Lewis is currently working on her third and fourth publications, even as she sends a word of encouragement to young people to embrace self-confidence, and purpose through her works which she hopes will serve them as a guide.
‘Black Girl Soliloquy’ was her first book, published in 2022, and two years later, in 2024, Lewis put out ‘EmbraceYour Journey’.
She told SEARCHLIGHT on the close of December, 2025 that her journey as a writer started with poetry over a decade ago.
“…I began ‘Black Girl Soliloquy’ around 2013. That is when I really started getting into poetry writing,” Lewis said, adding that she always loved poetry, but it was not until she met a college friend around 2017 that she began to take her writing seriously.
She explained that Black Girl Soliloquy, a compilation of poetry, is deeply rooted in personal experience, inspired by her own struggles with mental health. This included anxiety and depression, as well as experiences of domestic and verbal abuse.
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