Wahida Clark is a New York Times, USA Today and Essence bestselling author with more than a million books in print. Best known for her Payback and Thug series, she began writing fiction while incarcerated at a women's federal prison camp and is now known as a trailblazer in urban fiction. She is the founder of Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, one of the most popular and fastest growing urban independent publishing houses in the industry. Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, she can be found online at WClarkpublishing.com.