Dywane D. Birch

Dywane D. Birch, a graduate of Norfolk State University and Hunter College, is the author of Beneath the Bruises (2008), From My Soul to Yours (2007), Shattered Souls (2007), and When Loving You is Wrong (2005). In addition, he is a contributing author to the compelling compilation, Breaking the Cycle(2005), edited by Zane--a collection of short stories on domestic violence, which won the 2006 NAACP Image award for outstanding literary fiction. He is also a contributing author to the anthology Fantasy (2007), a collection of erotica short stories. He is the author of the novella, The Goddess of Desire in Zane's erotica anthology Another Time, Another Place.

Dywane has a master's degree in psychology, and is a clinically certified forensic counselor. A former director of an adolescent crisis shelter, he continues to work with adolescents and adult offenders, while working on his next literary endeavor.