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About ADRIENNE IJIOMA
Adrienne Ijioma, aka Jess Vaughn (Writes), was born in Detroit, Michigan in June 1970. The condensed facts of her life are that she was born the youngest of five children to an industrious, hardworking mom and a aspiring fashion model dad in the heydey of Detroit's history. She recalls a thriving city with lots of downtown shopping including department stores and specialty shops, fun amusements for the kids with the city's well-known international festivals at Hart Plaza, the local arcades and thrilling Boblo Island. She grew up in the great time of Motown fame. These memories lend much background for current & future poetry and stories.
She credits her love of creative writing to her primary education and introduction to many notable writers through lessons and encouragement by her Detroit public school teachers, Ms. Shirley Williams, Ms. Phillips, Carrie Strode, Ms. D'Angelo and Joyce Holley. She strongly and fondly remembers becoming acquainted with the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison as well as Judith Krantz, Judy Blume, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Hitchcock and others.
Adrienne recalls her first notable interest in creative writing at 8 years old when her 3rd grade teacher (Ms. Phillips) retrieved a poem she wrote from the trash and entered her into a regional poetry contest, which she won. From there, she had rarely a memory that did not include a poetic record for reference.
"Although born in Michigan and rooted in Italy, I have called North Carolina home for over a decade. I write fiction under the pseudonym, Jess Vaughn, and save reality for my rising fashion designer husband, Michael Iji, and our two children.
We are a very social and creative family. Since we are both without any local family, our dinner table is routinely surrounded by close and new friends. It is a time when I can hone my storytelling skills to captive audiences!
We like to do group singing, art & painting projects as well as reading, cooking and baking together. I read all of the children's stories to the kids throughout my writing process, giving them prominent input in the direction of the storylines.
In my new adventure story, Back to the Land of the Stinky Feet, the main character, Smelly Shelly, comes from a utopian-type village called Stinkafitte. The ambience is not unlike ours, a town built on family, community, safety and fun. My children are thriving here and being able to watch them grow and learn inspires me to write stories of value for young ones.
I listen to them pray sincerely for the opportunity for me to work from home and be able to spend more time with them. Knowing the importance of my role in their formation challenges me to make every moment with them count. It also drives me to create more opportunities, as I work for the sustainability of my writing career."
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Adrienne Ijioma is a creative writer of fiction, flash fiction, poetry, children's storybooks, greeting cards, and has utilized her skills professionally for more than 25 years in corporate settings. She worked mostly in the U.S., but spent three years teaching English in Italy. She is currently working on a massive amount of projects - about 28 WIPs in all including a middle grade adventure storybook, a thrilling suspense work of fiction along with the continual desire to complie poetic works & spoken word.
As previoulsy noted she also works under the pen name Jess Vaughn (Jessica K. Vaughn), and can be found on most social media and the web as Jess Vaughn Writes or Jess Vaughn Jewels. Send her a note today and tell her how you like her work!
FB IG: Jess Vaughn Writes, Jess Vaughn Jewels
Twitter: @Jess Vaughn Writes
YT: Jess Vaughn Writes
https://www.realisticpoetry.com/profile/jessvaughnwrites/profile
https://allauthor.com/profile/jessvaughnwrites/
http://jessvaughnwrites.allauthor.com/
https://www.jessvaughnwrites.com
She credits her love of creative writing to her primary education and introduction to many notable writers through lessons and encouragement by her Detroit public school teachers, Ms. Shirley Williams, Ms. Phillips, Carrie Strode, Ms. D'Angelo and Joyce Holley. She strongly and fondly remembers becoming acquainted with the works of Edgar Allen Poe, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison as well as Judith Krantz, Judy Blume, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Hitchcock and others.
Adrienne recalls her first notable interest in creative writing at 8 years old when her 3rd grade teacher (Ms. Phillips) retrieved a poem she wrote from the trash and entered her into a regional poetry contest, which she won. From there, she had rarely a memory that did not include a poetic record for reference.
"Although born in Michigan and rooted in Italy, I have called North Carolina home for over a decade. I write fiction under the pseudonym, Jess Vaughn, and save reality for my rising fashion designer husband, Michael Iji, and our two children.
We are a very social and creative family. Since we are both without any local family, our dinner table is routinely surrounded by close and new friends. It is a time when I can hone my storytelling skills to captive audiences!
We like to do group singing, art & painting projects as well as reading, cooking and baking together. I read all of the children's stories to the kids throughout my writing process, giving them prominent input in the direction of the storylines.
In my new adventure story, Back to the Land of the Stinky Feet, the main character, Smelly Shelly, comes from a utopian-type village called Stinkafitte. The ambience is not unlike ours, a town built on family, community, safety and fun. My children are thriving here and being able to watch them grow and learn inspires me to write stories of value for young ones.
I listen to them pray sincerely for the opportunity for me to work from home and be able to spend more time with them. Knowing the importance of my role in their formation challenges me to make every moment with them count. It also drives me to create more opportunities, as I work for the sustainability of my writing career."
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Adrienne Ijioma is a creative writer of fiction, flash fiction, poetry, children's storybooks, greeting cards, and has utilized her skills professionally for more than 25 years in corporate settings. She worked mostly in the U.S., but spent three years teaching English in Italy. She is currently working on a massive amount of projects - about 28 WIPs in all including a middle grade adventure storybook, a thrilling suspense work of fiction along with the continual desire to complie poetic works & spoken word.
As previoulsy noted she also works under the pen name Jess Vaughn (Jessica K. Vaughn), and can be found on most social media and the web as Jess Vaughn Writes or Jess Vaughn Jewels. Send her a note today and tell her how you like her work!
FB IG: Jess Vaughn Writes, Jess Vaughn Jewels
Twitter: @Jess Vaughn Writes
YT: Jess Vaughn Writes
https://www.realisticpoetry.com/profile/jessvaughnwrites/profile
https://allauthor.com/profile/jessvaughnwrites/
http://jessvaughnwrites.allauthor.com/
https://www.jessvaughnwrites.com
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Books By ADRIENNE IJIOMA
COUNTENANCE: Mood through spoken word poems
Dec 14, 2019
$4.99
coun·te·nance - /ˈkount(ə)nəns/ - noun 1. a person's face or facial expression.
They say 'the eyes never lie.' If that be the case, the face should tell the whole story! The face is an open book to our feelings as it gives an indication of mood, emotion, or character. Often, despite our attempts to hide our feelings, our smile, eyes, even condition of our skin reveal our true emotions.
Countenance is the fourth installation of spoken word poetry from Adrienne Ijioma. This set of poems is an approach to more metered, traditional poetry while maintaining her typical flair for frank, outspokenness in free style. The theme of Countenance is facial expressions that are conjured up in the mind when one is going through turmoils in life: painful relationships, depression, disappointments, hardships, injustices and more. As always, Ms. Ijioma's goal is to lead her readers on a journey that comes out on the positive side, finding strength from within after having successfully endured & overcome the tribulations. Various moods through spoken word poetry. Happy reading!
Other poetic works by Adrienne Ijioma:
- Cuts on Me
- Poems on Twitter
- A Cafe Rendezvous
Adrienne Ijioma writes fiction under the pseudonym, Jess Vaughn. Stay tuned for new releases in 2020! Follow Jess Vaughn Writes and Jess Vaughn Jewels on FB, YT and IG.
They say 'the eyes never lie.' If that be the case, the face should tell the whole story! The face is an open book to our feelings as it gives an indication of mood, emotion, or character. Often, despite our attempts to hide our feelings, our smile, eyes, even condition of our skin reveal our true emotions.
Countenance is the fourth installation of spoken word poetry from Adrienne Ijioma. This set of poems is an approach to more metered, traditional poetry while maintaining her typical flair for frank, outspokenness in free style. The theme of Countenance is facial expressions that are conjured up in the mind when one is going through turmoils in life: painful relationships, depression, disappointments, hardships, injustices and more. As always, Ms. Ijioma's goal is to lead her readers on a journey that comes out on the positive side, finding strength from within after having successfully endured & overcome the tribulations. Various moods through spoken word poetry. Happy reading!
Other poetic works by Adrienne Ijioma:
- Cuts on Me
- Poems on Twitter
- A Cafe Rendezvous
Adrienne Ijioma writes fiction under the pseudonym, Jess Vaughn. Stay tuned for new releases in 2020! Follow Jess Vaughn Writes and Jess Vaughn Jewels on FB, YT and IG.
Other Formats:
Paperback
$5.99
I’ve always worn sweaters in the summertime.
No matter if cloudy or skies full of shine.
Sweating down my back, I smiled like I knew it
was cool. Walking down alleys, crossing streets,
neutral, just to get through it.
Some summers before, when I was still a girl,
I only got kind waves when I passed by.
But when bodies start changing shape,
men start silly grinning and bold approaching,
wanting more than a simple ‘Hi’. I wondered,
Why?
I wondered what I did wrong; when was the day
that I stopped being momma’s little girl
and started becoming prey?
I lost something learning that that’s how it goes
with innocence gone and blood flows...
- from Cuts on Me
Listening to this gritty, urban poetess vocalize the raw emotions of personal loss, pubescent sexualization, harassment & rediscovered dignity to explaining her take on why she still wears sweaters in the summertime, you will begin to understand that it is possible to #riseandconquer amid a world of economic upheaval, media deceptions, social haterism and self-doubt.
Take time to digest these 40 dramatic narratives of Detroit-born African-American author, Adrienne Ijioma, as she processes an evocative array of heart wrenching emotions from death, loss, sexual harassment & assault delivered in lyrical, rhythmic verse and straightforward honesty, with welcome acceptance of the life that comes after.
This rich collection of poetry delivered through spoken word, soliloquy, imagery, elegy, free verse and more takes the reader on a progressive emotional journey ending in a place that is good, satisfying and full of self-discovery, faith and hope.
No matter if cloudy or skies full of shine.
Sweating down my back, I smiled like I knew it
was cool. Walking down alleys, crossing streets,
neutral, just to get through it.
Some summers before, when I was still a girl,
I only got kind waves when I passed by.
But when bodies start changing shape,
men start silly grinning and bold approaching,
wanting more than a simple ‘Hi’. I wondered,
Why?
I wondered what I did wrong; when was the day
that I stopped being momma’s little girl
and started becoming prey?
I lost something learning that that’s how it goes
with innocence gone and blood flows...
- from Cuts on Me
Listening to this gritty, urban poetess vocalize the raw emotions of personal loss, pubescent sexualization, harassment & rediscovered dignity to explaining her take on why she still wears sweaters in the summertime, you will begin to understand that it is possible to #riseandconquer amid a world of economic upheaval, media deceptions, social haterism and self-doubt.
Take time to digest these 40 dramatic narratives of Detroit-born African-American author, Adrienne Ijioma, as she processes an evocative array of heart wrenching emotions from death, loss, sexual harassment & assault delivered in lyrical, rhythmic verse and straightforward honesty, with welcome acceptance of the life that comes after.
This rich collection of poetry delivered through spoken word, soliloquy, imagery, elegy, free verse and more takes the reader on a progressive emotional journey ending in a place that is good, satisfying and full of self-discovery, faith and hope.
A Café Rendezvous
Mar 23, 2019
$5.99
A spoken word poetry collection exploring the emotions of a developing relationship, told from both the guy's perspective as well as the girl's. It is romantic, full of feeling while remaining lighthearted and fun!
Guys can be emotional too. Several poems explore love and romance from his point of view.
In between waiting for love and being in love; on the outside of relationships looking in. Before losing what you had or regretting what you missed, there are the interludes - the moments of excitement and wonderment, anticipation and expectation. As it just begins and before it ends, be all about the romance of A Café Rendezvous.
The Love-Speak Interludes, poems
Guys can be emotional too. Several poems explore love and romance from his point of view.
In between waiting for love and being in love; on the outside of relationships looking in. Before losing what you had or regretting what you missed, there are the interludes - the moments of excitement and wonderment, anticipation and expectation. As it just begins and before it ends, be all about the romance of A Café Rendezvous.
The Love-Speak Interludes, poems
Jess Vaughn Writes: Poems on Twitter
Aug 12, 2018
$4.99
Discover this latest chapbook by Adrienne Ijioma, a book for all ages, of 20 inspired writings based on Twitter prompts from @RealisticPoetry. This sweet collection includes beautiful, full color eye-catching photography. These short works of various poetic styles cover subjects such as the future, opportunities, life, creation, love, strength, survival, race, positivity and kindness. Can fuel creative writing and classroom discussions on creativity, poetry, self-expression, genres, style, meter and therapeutic outlets for expressing emotions.
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