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I've always been a writer, and I've always worked with dogs (to my parents horror). While my friends were accumulating college debt, I was making a living grooming dogs. I've also trained dogs. After divorcing my high school sweetheart, I traveled to Africa (Tanzania) when I was 30, & that changed my life. I returned, took CLEP exams, and started going to college---paying as I went (majoring in Africa area studies). I got an assistantship to grad school, but there were no jobs when I graduated, so I joined Peace Corps, serving as a 'town planner' in Blantyre, Malawi. I've been back to Africa 4 more times, and I've c volunteered in urban India, and was a U.N. Volunteer in Africa. I wrote The Pleasure Seeker because I know what it's like to be an 'other'. People believe so many myths about others, and now, with the internet, those myths spread faster. Jews are actually a minority in the U.S,A., and most of us are secular. We're not Zionists. But Sikh are even more of a minority, and are constantly confused with being either Muslim or Hindu...and are often attacked out of hatred. The book is based on real African and music history.

My name is Zen Ase and I'm a best selling author, performer and globally ranked podcaster. I began journaling as a kid and have been hooked on writing ever since, but life has a way of derailing our passions. My family didn't support my career as a writer, so I became and award winner teacher and got married. I stopped writing for 17 years. In 2014, I went through a divorce and decided to reclaim my dreams. I started writing again and performing poetry. I've written 5 books, four of them Amazon best sellers, and been published in dozens of magazines. I've performed over 100 times and organized dozens of cultural events. My work in the community gained me a Congressional Award for activism. Today, I'm a semi-retired grandmother of 4 who also focuses on my passion projects, which include my podcast Zennurgy, which is globally ranked in the top 10%. My hope is to help others hone their inner voice and crystallize their purpose, just like I did. I think a key ingredient to success is deciding for yourself what success is. There are many ways to get there. For me, it has been following my intuition and using art to heal and to make sense of the world around me. To those reading this bio, I say: Enhance your life, impact your circle, small changes lead to big results. May you walk in Zennurgy!

Angela Peete is a freelance writer, Playwright and Author in Detroit , Michigan originally from Baltimore, MD, . Born in Baltimore raised in Nigeria for four years and finally settling in Michigan, Angela is an avid traveler and an Bible enthusiast,and after working in many fields Angela took a leap of faith to begin her journey as a Playwright doing Dinner Theatres inMaryland, Virginia and New York in the early 90's; and now currently residing in Michigan where she continued from doing Dinner Theatre to writing numerous Plays for her Church she embarked upon a career as a Freelance writer with the LA Examiner and an Author of her first children's book the ABC of Safety : Abduction Safety. She has garnered a following of many from her Plays to her new new journey as a Producer with her company AMPd Network and Publishings, LLC .