Meet Chandra West

Chandra West was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She began writing at around age eight, keeping a little diary. By eighth grade she was writing short stories and poems. It was also at this time when her ambition to become a published author surfaced. She dreamed of becoming the youngest best-selling author in America to appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show. 

During her senior year in high school Chandra's Creative Writing teacher gave her an A on the final (a short story) and wrote “when you become famous don’t change your name.” Chandra’s first fiction novel “Living Ghetto Fabulous” was self-published in 2006. Her second book, “Vanilla Dream” was published by La Femme Fatale in October, 2012.

Aside from one day being a “known” author, she aspires to help the youth. Her thought is if as a community everyone came together to help the young people, maybe there wouldn’t be so much violence, drugs, sex and teen pregnancy. So although her works can be construed as erotic, gritty or urban,  she is simply trying to keep it real with the youth so they know what’s going on and know that there are consequences for the decisions all people make. 

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