


Wahida currently operates her publishing company out of East Orange, New Jersey, Wahida Clark Presents Publishing. The ultimate goal of the Phoenix Academy is to establish a charter and vocational training school. An organization that also provides support groups and mentors for at-risk youth. She is also Vice President of Phoenix Academy Inc. She has given motivational speeches and shared her story at high schools in New York, New Jersey and Halfway Houses throughout New Jersey. Today she is the Vice President of the nonprofit organization based out of East Orange, New Jersey, Prodigal Sons and Daughters Redirection Services, a re-entry program for convicts and ex-convicts. Her Thug Series has sold over 300,000 copies and the Payback Series has sold over 150,000.Īfter serving a nine and a half year prison sentence, Wahida Clark was released to a halfway house in 2007, from the federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia. The highly anticipated Justify My Thug under Cash Money Content made its debut at #19 on the New York Bestselling List, one of the few urban lit books to do so. Her first novel, Thugs And The Women Who Love Them and the sequel, Every Thug Needs A Lady appeared on the ’s Bestsellers List. When you read her novels they are so real you are convinced of one of three things: that you are inside the book, you know the characters, or you just have to meet them.

Her style is street, raw, and she has an imagination that’s in overdrive. She decided to start writing fiction while incarcerated at a women&rsquos federal camp in Lexington, KY. Wahida Clark was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. Wahida Clark is a Top 100 Bestselling Author Making Our List 76 Times
