Traquan Verdejo was born in Puerto Rico on January 24th, 1976. He was ten years old when his parents divorced and had moved to New York with his mother and three sisters. They all lived in a cramped studio apartment located in Spanish Harlem. With no father figure at the time and his mother working long hours, he turned to the streets for guidance. His early exposures to the street life believe it or not gave birth to his gift of being a visionary. Tra grew a passion for writing and expressing himself through story telling. "There was one time, my 7th grade teacher asked us to write about our