Multiple award-winning journalist/author, Denise Crittendon, is one of few veteran media representatives to successfully make the leap from newspapers and magazines to the world of fiction. Her Afrofuturist sci-fi /fantasy novel, Where it Rains in Color, earned an Indie Author Project Award for the State of Nevada and a 2023 “Outstanding Book Award” from the National Association of Black Journalists(NABJ). Crittendon is a former staff writer for The Detroit News and the Kansas City Star, and a past editor-in-chief of both NAACP’s national magazine and a Michigan-based magazine for black families. Other achievements include self-help books for teens and Millionaire Moves: Seven Proven Principles of Entrepreneurship, co-authored with local business mogul, William Pickard. She divides her time between her hometown, Detroit, and Spring Valley, Nevada.