T. J. Riley resides in Harper Woods, Michigan, outside Detroit. She comes from a family of storytellers, starting with her own mother, Sylvia Stone-McDuffie. Her grandsons Rah and Jahi Humphrey are the authors of the Chocolate League, a series of chapter books for children, and her son Mosi Humphrey has won several writing awards. Ms. Riley holds degrees in geography and African history and has been a student of world religions, spirituality, the occult, and alternative-consciousness thinking since age seven. As a writer, Ms. Riley hopes to challenge readers to rethink the legends of creation and the meaning of life.
