In addition to his first novel, the award-winning ONE BLOOD, Qwantu has published four volumes of poetry: Lightbringer, Lovelost, After the Storm, and Midnight's Shadow. Qwantu is an active member of the outstanding socially active poetry collective Black on Black Rhyme out of Tallahassee, FL. He has performed spoken word in poetry venues from New York to Los Angeles. He is also part owner and one third of The Pantheon Collective, an independent publishing venture dedicated to bringing high quality independent books to the masses while empowering and inspiring other authors to follow their dreams. For more information visit his website www.qwantuamaru.com, follow him on twitter @onebloodbook, join his fanpage: www.facebook.com/onebloodbook , or e-mail him at qwantuamaru@gmail.com. Qwantu currently resides in Jersey City, NJ