Fartema Fagin has earned recognition for her poems from the National Poetry Society and has received awards from Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a bachelor’s degreein English/Journalism from Georgia Sttate University, and a master’s degree inEnglish Rhetoric from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Fagin is an adjunct professor and is an active member fo the International Women’s Writing Guild. She and her husband live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.