Nadiyah Headen is a senior staff writer in the Creative Writing Department at DA.   

She’s been writing since 4^th grade. She writes poems and stories, but her favorite form of writing is poetry. She takes after her mom and grandfather when it comes to writing. Her mother writes poetry and her grandfather writes books. 

When she grows up, she wants to go to UNF to study psychology. She also plans to get her doctorate degree in psychology so she can become a psychotherapist. She loves helping others and wants to give people a voice within her community.