Arlene Crawford is the author of A Visit from Grandma. She has been an educator for the past 32 years. She is an adjunct professor at Monroe College Bronx/New Rochelle and Westches...ver maisArlene Crawford is the author of A Visit from Grandma. She has been an educator for the past 32 years. She is an adjunct professor at Monroe College Bronx/New Rochelle and Westchester
Community CoIlege Valhalla, New York. She is an avid reader who enjoys traveling to distant
lands. Arlene was born in Jamaica W.I. but currently resides in the Bronx.
Amaris Crawford is a writer, poet and entrepreneur. She is the co-author of A Visit from
Grandma and the Founder of THerəpç, a unique women's image consulting and styling company
(www.therapybyAmaris.com).
As a young child, she developed a passion for writing because of the short-stories that she read at
her local library and she was inspired by the oral poetry that her mother would recite to her in
their apartment in the Bronx. By age 10, Amaris began to write her own poems and was
published in her first anthology. Amaris currently lives and works in Chicago, IL where she
continues to write creatively.ver menos