Malika Scott is a Columbia College Graduate from Naperville, IL. She received degrees in Creative Writing and Journalism--specifically Magazine Writing and Editing. Malika has been an associate writer for the Columbia Chronicle and is currently finishing a novella. She is a self proclaimed bibliophile and grew up with Junie B. Jones and Shel Silverstein being her only friends. She has known she wanted to be a writer since she wrote her first poem when  she was 12 titled “Love Note”. Malika’s dream is to write adult erotic novels that can hold their own next to Shyla Walker and Sylvia Day. When she’s not writing Malika enjoys baking and painting.