Author/writer, artist, and professional speaker, tina scott lassiter’s essays, in response to current events/issues and as reflections on daily existence, are featured on Midnight & Indigo and Solstice Literary Magazine, the International Women’s Writing Guild, and BSW Chronicles websites. Judges for the anthology, “Stay Salty: Life in the Garden State,” selected one of her essays to be included in a printed volume in 2021. A lover of words since the age of six, her first book, “morsels of peeps…mindful musings, inspirational thoughts, quiet images,” was published in 2018; she has completed the manuscript for a second book that contains both humorous and deeply reflective essays that cover different periods of her life, and is working on a novel. Tina blogged about eclectic topics and issues for over 10 years, has journaled for over 20, and taught journaling to pediatric residents at Children’s Hospital, to students enrolled in a healing arts program at two high schools, and to adults as part of a creative learning module at Phillips at THEARC, all in Washington, DC. A former Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing for LaGuardia Community College in New York, she served as Art Editor/Columnist for an aspiring multicultural arts magazine while living in NYC, and co-edited and wrote for Janus, her campus literary magazine, while attending at Howard University.