Popular Hip-Hop Author to Speak at Coker

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Hartsville, SC — Author Toschia Moffett will host a book reading and discussion as part of Black History Month at Coker College on Thursday, February 22 at 8 p.m. in the C.W. Coker Auditorium in Davidson Hall. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

Moffett,a member of Coker's Class of 1994, is part of a new African American literary genre that couples hip-hop culture with the themes of love and life that writers have explored for centuries. You Wrong For That, her debut novel, was published in 2005 by Urban Books and its sequel, See... What Had Happened Was!, will be released later this year. Moffett’s non-fiction work From Zora to Diddy; A Contrast and Comparison of the Harlem and the Hip-Hop Renaissance will also be published in 2007.

A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Moffett is co-founder and tour organizer of The Divine Literary Tour, the first nationwide book tour of authors from Black Greek fraternities and sororities. She is also an attorney, a political advocate and an entrepreneur.

Moffett credits her early love and knowledge of literature to her parents but says that Coker College helped catapult her literary career.She lives in Texas and works for Dell.

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