Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

[citation needed] She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star (PHA) and an Honorary Member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She grew up in Lincoln Heights a suburb of Cincinnati Ohio and in 1960 began her studies at Fisk University in Nashville Tennessee her grandfather's alma mater. and Jones "Gus" Giovanni.

She is currently a distinguiNikki Giovannid professor of English at Virginia Tech. Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. (born June 7 1943) is an American writer commentator activist and educator.