An NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee and a member of the TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS, author, Anita Bunkley was voted one of the 50 favorite African American authors of the twentieth century by the on-line African American Literature Book Club. She was awarded a 2007 Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times magazine, the foremost trade magazine for writers of romance.

Published by major houses such as Penguin USA, Harper Collins, Kensington, and Harlequin many of her seventeen novels and anthologies, have appeared in Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Black Expressions Book Club, and on Essence Magazine's Best-seller list in both hardcover and paperback. She is a former teacher of English, French, and Spanish, and was a participant in Houston's Writers in the Schools Program.

Anita, who speaks regularly at national conferences traveled to Cairo, Egypt to speak to the Egyptian Women's Writers Association at Ains Sham University. She also conducts writers workshops and offers her editing services to new authors seeking publication.

One of Anita's favorite pastimes is international travel, which inspires many of her story ideas. She is also an inventor who holds a patent and several trademarks. When she is not writing. she stays busy promoting her popular invention for readers, the Read-EZ!

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Anita lives in Houston with her husband, Crawford. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio.