About the Author

Angela N. Mata is an independent author and illustrator from Charlotte, North Carolina. She began her post-secondary education at the Atlanta College of Art (currently Savannah College of Art & Design) but later minored in Computer IT at a small-town college. Her love of contemporary Black theatre motivated Angela to become a writer at an early age. She familiarized herself with the works of Lorraine Hansberry, Gordon Parks, Joseph A. Walker, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, George C. Wolfe, Beah Richards, Gloria Naylor, and August Wilson, then taught herself the art of screenwriting.

Angela has authored several original screenplays from 1994 to the present. She has written multiple novels and is independently published. Her objective is to spiritually enlighten and inspire through great literature. Two Black Doves Publications is solely owned and operated by Angela N. Mata. The name derives from Herodotus' The Histories, Book II, Chapter 55:

...two black doves had come flying from Thebes in Egypt, one to Libya and one to Dodona; this last settled on an oak tree, and uttered there human speech, declaring that there must be there a place of divination from Zeus; the people of Dodona understood that the message was divine...