Sonsyrea Tate Montgomery is the author of Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam, selected by the American Library Association as a "Best Books", and author of Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam. She is a veteran journalist, who has published articles in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Virginian Pilot, The Washington Informer, and other publications. She loves, loves, loves literature - reading and writing it - for its transformative powers. She is working on her first novel, and third non-fiction book.