About Jamila

Jamila E. Gomez was born on January 15th, 1982 in Chicago, Ill. She is the youngest of three daughters. She lived in Chicago for three years before she and her family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended kindergarten.

After kindergarten, Jamila and her family packed up and moved to Lithonia, Georgia. There she attended Redan Elementary, Salem Middle, and Redan High School, graduating in 2000. She wrote her first poem at age 17 as a means of dealing with the death of her grandmother. Two years after graduation, she attended Georgia Perimeter College, where she majored in English. It was there that she took courses geared towards creative writing and eventually developed an interest in writing poetry. She had three poems published in the school’s literary magazine.

Following her schooling, Jamila maintained her passion for poetry and continued to write, hoping for the opportunity to one day become a published poet. Along the way, she managed to become a freelance editor, editing “Secret Covers” for Timothy Hill and “Seven Days, Seven Nights: More Skeletons Revealed” for L’Mignon.

In the summer of 2011, Jamila managed to self-publish a collection of her own poetry in a book entitled, “Pure Confessions”. The book contains 25 poems she had written in a 3-year timeframe. She has also written a novella, entitled “Birthday Girl”. The novella was published under One Karma Publishing. Currently, she works as a freelance copy editor and proofreader.

Besides being a sister and a daughter, Jamila is also an aunt to a niece and nephew. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, board games, and listening to music.




Woman's Essence Magazine Features Author Jamila Gomez!

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Fellow writer, Sharon C. Cooper (sharonccooper.wordpress.com) has given me my first award as an author - the Lucky 7 Award! This award allows writers to showcase a little piece of their work and pass the award along to other novelists and writers. It can be from your published novel, short story, poem, or a work in progress - your choice. As a winner, you are asked to do the following (on your blog): - Go to page 77 of your manuscript (or any part of your written work) - Go to line 7 - Copy next 7 lines, sentences, or paragraphs into your post - Give the award to 7 more writers I choose: Krystol Diggs (http://writingbykrystol.com/) L'Mignon (http://www.lmignon.com/) Twistn Words (twistnwords.blogspot.com)

Deidra Green (http://authordeidradsgreen.wordpress.com/)

Poetic Designs (http://poeticdesigns.ning.com/)

Andrew Rainey (http://www.wix.com/kissme80/the-book-of)

Julia Press Simmons (http://www.jpsimmons.com/)

(From "My Sheree Amore", coming soon!)

No sooner than she opened her eyes did the doorbell ring, followed three hard knocks.

“Yes? Who is it?” she shouted as she sprinted to the door.

“It’s me . . . Antoine. Can I come in?

“What the hell is he doing here NOW?” she whispered to herself as she adjusted her clothes just before unlocking the door and opening it.

“Hey . . . you’re early. Come on in,” Sheree said joyfully. Goosebumps overcame her as she couldn’t stop smiling.

“Were you busy,” Antoine asked. “I didn’t mean to interrupt you. My bad. I’ll come back at 8 like you told me to.”

“No, wait. You’re good. I was just about to have some dinner. Would you care to join me?” she offered, praying inside that he’d oblige.

"The Versatile Blogger" Once again, fellow blogger Sharon Cooper (http://sharonccooper.wordpress.com/) has nominated me for another award. This time, it's the Versatile Blogger award. This comes as quite an appreciated surprise, as I have yet to acquire the title of "blogger". But again, I'm grateful to be thought of in this manner. As a part of the nomination, I must give 7 facts about myself and nominate 15 other bloggers. I'm not sure that I know 15 bloggers, so I will do the best I can lol. Here it goes: 1.  I wrote my first poem at 17. 2. My all-time favorite song is Stevie Wonder's "Overjoyed". 3. I have a fear of thunderstorms and roaches.  4. I'm 4'9' 1/2. :-) 5. My novella, "Birthday Girl" is loosely based off plans I wanted to make for my 29th birthday.  6. Two of my poems were selected to be a part of two different anthologies, due out this year. 7. I don't know how to whistle. My nominees are: Krystol Diggs (http://writingbykrystol.com/)
L'Mignon (http://www.lmignon.com/)
Twistn Words (twistnwords.blogspot.com)

Deidra Green (http://authordeidradsgreen.wordpress.com/)

Poetic Designs (http://poeticdesigns.ning.com/)

Andrew Rainey (http://www.wix.com/kissme80/the-book-of)

Julia Press Simmons (http://www.jpsimmons.com/)

Jamie Rockymore (http://jamierockymore.com/)