DeBerry, Virginia

Virginia DeBerry is a bestselling, award-winning author. With her co-writer Donna Grant, she is the author of "Tryin to Sleep in the Bed You Made", which won the Merit Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the Blackboard Bestseller List. They are also the authors of "Far From the Tree" and" Better Than I Know Myself", both "Essence" bestsellers. A graduate of SUNY at Buffalo, Virginia worked for 10 years as a high school English teacher in Buffalo, before moving to New York to start a successful career as a