Author Sheilah Y. Kimble always had a lifelong love for reading which inspired her to try writing when she was twelve years old. She began by writing poems and trying to write songs, which eventually turned into books.  Then she discovered Ebony’s Black encyclopedias and other works by authors who wrote during slavery and the Harlem Renaissance. 

 By the time Sheilah got to high school, she had continued her hand at writing, but it went nowhere because she did not have the support, guidance, or funding that she needed to pursue her dreams, yet she never gave up. She wrote on scratch paper and anything that she could find. Even though some of her works had been stolen or lost between Buffalo, New York, and Southern California, she did not let that deter her and kept writing.   

Sheilah soon developed her signature writing style, reflecting her reading style's diversity. Her favorites include urban and multicultural books, biographies, history, and Christian fiction.   Sheilah resides in Southern California with two of her three children, as her eldest son Arthur Lee Duncantell II, passed away in 2011, all of whom she loves dearly.   

Sheilah plans to complete her Ph.D., which she put on hold after four years due to her son's violent death. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing, singing, helping others, and going to church in her spare time. She comes from a background where her family is also diversely talented.  

Her first book, “Bits and Pieces of Me: A Mother’s Memoir,” took her four years to complete, copywritten in 2012 and finally published in 2015. Since then, Sheilah has published nine books and has other projects in the works, including a play and a journal article for academic research. After her son’s death, Sheilah decided to incorporate his legacy with her own. 

As a cancer survivor and a victim of sexual assault and domestic violence, she became an activist and motivational speaker with the hopes of being a catalyst for positive change for single mothers, youth, young adults, victims of gun and domestic violence, and their families who may be enduring some of the same pains and heartaches that she has endured.   

Sheilah has a 501(c)3 non-profit organization she established in honor of her deceased son and uses her talents to reach the masses by demonstrating how writing can be used as therapy and a tool for healing.