Raven is a graduate of Georgetown University, a Japanese translator, a poet, a public speaker, and the author of Padre!... She will make you laugh out loud when you least expect it - a cultural nonfiction-writing, narrative tyrannosaurus rex. Roar!

The proof is in Padre! And, yes, Raven is real. Her book awaits you in all form and fashion below.

EXCERPT from Padre! :

“The Ivoirien children who you see me living with on the cover of this book are poor but poverty is not a permanent condition, nor does it have a recognizable face. Color was and is not often the reason for our mistreatment of one another. The Egyptians, the Moors, the Mongolians, the Romans, the Jews, the British, the Ottomans, the Dutch, the Americans, the Mandinka, the Mayans, and more; the list of conquerors is as diverse as those conquered. Ivoiriens in the Ivory Coast—La Cote d’Ivoire as it is called in West Africa—have it badly, but I’m not here to make you feel sorry for Ivoiriens. Feel sorry for me that it took me so long to figure out why I came here in the first place.”