Naya H. Jones was born in Brownwood, Texas, the seventh of eight children. She attended Texas Southern University, majoring in Sociology, and Mercy College where she majored in Business. She has always been fascinated with stories born of fantasy and magic, and worlds inhabited by fairies, dragons, unicorns and other mystical creatures. She thanks her father for passing on to her his love of storytelling. She has performed as an actress, written and directed for the stage and published short stories. She's now working on her first feature film.