McCray, Sevyn

Sevyn McCray is an Atlanta, Georgia native. She was raised on the Westside of Atlanta, where she attended both elementary and high school. Always having a love for reading anything that she could get her hands on, she starting writing short stories and poems. Sevyn was urged to enter an essay contest by her fifth grade teacher that was sponsored by the city's Department of Public Safety. After winning her first contest, she continued to enter them and win them every month until she finished elementary school. Writing became second nature and soon she was tutoring peers and assisting her teache...