Tononiya D. is a multi-faceted artist full of passionate provocative perspectives that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster. She brings her readers on a journey that they not only are able to relate to the characters, but also identify with their emotions. She began writing poetry, her first love, at age eleven. She published her first novel, Claiming What's Mine, in 2010. Her first poetry book entitled Poetic Symmetry came soon after. Her second novel Cipher was first published in 2013 along with her second book of poetry Simply Stated. The republication of Cipher is destined to have its readers wanting more and deeming a new genre in fiction writing and the author, Tononiya D. a classification like no other.