Nathaniel Wade grew up in New Orleans, LA in the Magnolia projects. As a child, he had been placed in several different foster homes, in which he eventually ran away from. He dropped out of school in the 7th grade and later went back to earn his GED. He is a performer of R&B, Rap and gospel music. He has been writing since he was fifteen years old. Cut Boy the Streets Made Me is the first in the trilogy of novels he has written. Even though these trilogies of novels are fiction in content the story is based on the reality of life on the streets.