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Ayin M. Adams grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Ayin studied acting in NYC at the Michael Sawyer Studio, Ujamaa Black Theatre, Shooting Stars Performers, and the Frank Silvera's Writer's Workshop. Ayin appeared in Off-Broadway plays and films. She traveled with stage productions throughout the U.S. Ayin studied Speech and Theatre at Lehman College and received her Doctoral Degree at the University of Metaphysics in Studio City, CA. Ayin is a practitioner of the International Foundation of Bio-Magnetic Touch Healing, a motivational inspirational speaker, award-winning poet, screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker and healer. Ayin taught herself how to read, write and tie shoelaces at age two, by age five, she was writing her poems and posting them on colored construcion paper, selling them on her street corner in Brooklyn NY for twenty-five cents. With immediate success, she quickly increased her sales to fifty-cents as passersby enjoyed her writing and poetic flare. Ayin's writing is tender, dynamic, stimulating and thought provoking, emotionally weaving through one emotion to the next, leaving her readers and listeners astonished. Ayin is the 1998 'Pat Parker' memorial poetry-prize winner, 1999 'Audre Lorde' memorial prose-prize winner, nominated in 2000 as Poet of the Year and inducted as an International Poet of Merit by the International Society of Poets. Who's Who in 2000 Scholars of the 21st Century by the Biographical Centre at Cambridge England, Winner of the President's Award for Literary Excellence 2001 by the National Registry of Authors, Grant participant at the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writer's Week held at Howard University 2001. Ayin has been published in the 'Island Lesbian Connection' Maui Hawaii, 'Poetic Voices of America', 'Women In The Moon''In The Family'London, 2002,2003, 'Maui Muses', 'Bum Rush The Page'2003 a defpoetryjam. Ayin is a member of the Academy of American Poets, Maui Live Poet's Society, Christian Writer's Guild, Detroit Black Writer's Guild and the International Women's Writing Guild. Ayin writes a monthly poetry column for 'Mahogany Latin Hawaii'. Ayin believes that everyone has the wherewithal to surpass oneself in life by suiting up, showing up, and following through. She makes her home in Maui where she writes daily and enjoys the beauty and nature of paradise. Check out the artist's website: http://www.ayinadams.com/ Track List: 1. Peeling Layers Of Onion 2. They Never Grew Up 3. Products of Tragic Mystification:Homophobia 4. Lost in The Duality 5. Cooking 6. Looking Back/Moving Forward:Daughters of the Womb 7. The Color of Her Tears 8. Lady in The Lake 9. For Melinda 10. Walking Through My Fire 11. Deeply Hooked 12. A Tragic Token 13. It Is Like Love Clapping Its Hands 14. Fat Chance 15. It's All An Illusion 16. Such Devotion 17. In Silence 18. Wondering 19. Endless Streams of Greatness 20. Resurgence of Self Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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