meet our team!
the author
Candace M. greenidge
Candace Greenidge was originally born in Queens, New York and partially raised in Newnan, Georgia. As a child, she was always eager to learn, an avid reader, and mimicked being a teacher as early as age 7, with pretend play with her twin sister and friends in her neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens. She began writing as a teenager. As a youth, it has always been a passion to write stories and poetry that would eventually turn to books or movies. She attended Clark Atlanta University as a Mass Communications major with focus on Radio, Television and Film, but life turned her to acquire a bachelor’s degree elsewhere and she later attained a master’s degree in Elementary Education at Walden University. She has been teaching elementary children in Georgia for over a decade in writing and reading.
Currently, she resides in Atlanta, GA with her husband Antonio and 4 kids (pictured below), and still has a passion to educate, teaching 5th grade. The Magic in My Hair is the first children’s book she has published, but many more are to come centered around uplifting pride in who you are and invoking love for self and others.
the illustrator
tararra m. hill
Tararra Hill resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, Brian, and their three beautiful children Jermaine, Arian, and Ryan (pictured below). She is a Jersey native who grew up on the Jersey Shore, which is where she developed a deep love for the ARTS. Growing up in a family of thespians, finding her form of expression was inevitable. Her mother noticed her passion for creating at a young age and nurtured her gifts throughout her life. She was a very free-spirited child who was very active in the ARTS and in her community. Her parents emphasized the importance of being a good person and leaving a mark on the world that can’t be erased and she took that very seriously.
Tararra attended Stockton University in New Jersey, majoring in Graphic Design and Visual Communications. There is where she learned to hone in on her creative ideas and make them real. She later earned a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and eventually transitioned into the corporate world. She currently works as a Senior Marketing Professional for a major architecture firm in Atlanta. Although her life as a wife, mother, and business professional gets pretty busy, she still finds ways to volunteer in her community and create in her spare time. The Magic in my Hair is the first book that she has ever illustrated and she has plans to continue her illustration journey with other projects planned for the near future.
