Selena Brooks

Selena Brooks was born in 1984 on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, made in Pass Christian and raised in Gulfport. She graduated from Gulfport High School in 2002 and went on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of South Alabama and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Strayer University. She currently serves the Federal Government in a civilian capacity as an employee of the Department of Defense, as she has done for the past nine years. As a Mississippi native, she is well aware of the negative perceptions and ill-informed commentary at mere mention of the land lost between Louisiana and Alabama, and her goal as a writer is to give a realistic description of the Mississippi experience and its residents through the underexposed positive voice of the African American community that characterized her own Creole heritage and upbringing on the Gulf Coast.