Released on = March 18, 2007, 7:47 pm

Press Release Author = Samantha Riche / Malume Media

Industry = Education

Press Release Summary = Lena Nozizwe,a Malawian-born author and Emmy award-winning
broadcaster tells students that reading and writing can help them through rough
times

Press Release Body = Trips around the world, meeting cute guys and encouraging the
discouraged are just a few of the reasons that inspire Emmy award-winner Lena
Nozizwe to write.

The author of Starring in Your Own Life (ISBN 0-784-87308-7), a motivational book
published by Simon & Schuster, will share more of the perks of writing during her
presentation, Why I Write at the Educational Cultural Center, 434 Oceanview Blvd.,
Friday, March 30th at 10:30 am. The program will be presented by the Diamond
Literary Festival.

"Growing up I was the original Ugly Betty. Other kids were really mean. I grew to
love books because they didn't care what I looked like. Between the pages of a book
I could go anywhere and be anyone," says Nozizwe.

Books not only changed Nozizwe from the inside out, they inspired her to write.
Her byline has appeared in a number of national publications including Vibe,
Complete Woman and Seventeen.

The onetime ugly duckling credits books, from self-help to biographies, for helping
her make a transformation that prompted papers around the world to write about her.

The Washington Post cited her as one of the nation capital's most fashionable
residents. Ireland's Sunday Independent described her as "beautiful, tenacious. and
a bit on the beautiful side."

"She is beautiful on the inside and out. Standing at 5ft, 10 in tall, she sparkles,"
said the Jamaica Observer.

The graduate of Point Loma High School and San Diego State University says,
"I really want to get across the message to everyone who is in school and not part
of the in crowd that reading and writing can be a great escape for outcasts."

In addition her print bylines, Nozizwe has written for television, including at the
CBS station in San Diego where she worked as an on-camera reporter. You may have
seen her on ESPN, BET, SKY TV or on Fox's America's Most Wanted.

Nozizwe was born in Malawi, Africa, and came to the United States so that her mother
Dr. Alice Princess Msumba Siwundhla, now a resident of Point Loma, could be featured
on the pioneering reality show, This is Your Life.

She sees writing as a passport that's taken her everywhere from Dublin to Brooklyn,
Palm Beach to South Central, Zimbabwe to Alaska, Stockholm to San Diego, locations
where she's met cute guys and heard from readers who have been inspired by her
motivational book, Starring in Your Own Life.

Read more at www.nozizwe.com.

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