The Psalmist Voice Presents: Author & Entrepreneur Eartha Watts Hicks

As an affiliate of BlackPR.com, Eartha Watts-Hicks has written countless press releases for products, services, and events. Many, requested by not for profits, small business owners, independent musicians and filmmakers, authors, and publishers, have effectively gained national and international exposure. Eartha offers a full range of publicity services and specializes in digital media kits. She is a contributing writer for Harlem World's Magazine's blog site and several other online publications. She is a former board member of Cultivating Our Sisterhood International Association a 501(c)(3), having served two terms as director of publications.

A fiction fellow of the North Country Institute and the Hurston-Wright Foundation, Eartha has studied under a host of award-winning authors. She is also a member of the acclaimed Harlem Writers Guild, writing network that has helped develop the talents of Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, Audrey Lorde, Terry McMillan, Grace F. Edwards, Walter Dean Myers, Ruby Dee, Paul Robeson, and Maya Angelou. Eartha Watts-Hicks is a winner of the 2013 Just R.E.A.D. Award in the fiction category from NYCHA/NAACP. In 2015, she was classified as a 'socialprenuer,' winning the Columbia SBA Business Pitch Competition. In 2017, Eartha Watts Hicks became a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) artist/entrepreneur. This mother of two now serves as New York City literacy ambassador for the NAACP.