About Rita

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Rita Woods is the award winning author of three novels, Remembrance, The Last Dreamwalker and The Edge of Yesterday. Her books, all historical steeped in fantasy and magic have won multiple accolades, including the AALBC (African American Literary Book Club) Award, the Hurston-Wright Award for Speculative Fiction and the Chicago Book of the Year for The Last Dreamwalker.

A graduate of Howard Medical School, Rita is a Board Certified Internist, and the current Medical Director of a men’s maximum security prison.  She lives in suburban Chicago with her family and where she also serves as an elected Trustee on her local library board.

Rita loves coffee, books, magic and travel (especially if it involves cemeteries), not necessarily in that order.