Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing...

Abandoned by her hustling father, raised by her devoted mother, then battered by the winds of loss, heartbreak, and sexual assault, awarded Diversity & Inclusion Leader and author Nikki Murphy exposes the undercurrents of resilience and faith that undergird her success in this riveting memoir-in-verse. Home for Hurricanes provides a sobering portrayal of both the jubilance and hardening of Black girls emanating from the ghettos, and Murphy celebrates...

Nine Lives to Eternity tells of my real-life brushes with death, not only once but several times, throughout my lifetime. The title was, inspired by the nine lives of a cat, which I have certainly lived several times, over with the numerous death-cheating situations I continually experienced. And as superstitious as I am about certain things, I started counting the times, I have cheated death in my life, and my jaw dropped, when I realized that I...