Sonya Kimble-Ellis
WRITER . EDITOR . CONTENT CONSULTANT
SONYA KIMBLE-ELLIS is a writer/author/editor who has mastered the art of creating content. She has done so for countless magazines, websites, and organizations. Her specialties include the arts, culture, small business, education, human interest, and interior design. Her pieces have appeared in Scholastic’s classroom magazines, Black Enterprise, The New York Daily News, Celebrity Hairstyles, Kitchen Solutions, Matters, Upscale, Ebony, Essence, and other publications and Web sites (Patch.com, Village Green.com, Tapinto.com).
Throughout her career, Kimble-Ellis has been an editor/managing editor for arts-related and legendary entertainment publications such as Right On! and Black Beat magazines and interviewed many recording artists and entertainers along the way. She worked for a number of years for Grammy-Award winning producer, songwriter, and musician James Mtume in a publicity and all-around promotion capacity for him and his roster of music artists.
On the solo front, she was a publicist for several of New Jersey's top Dance and House music artists, garnering press for them in local, national, and oversees publications. Her endeavors have also included writing bios for artists on Epic, Capitol, Atlantic Records, and several independent labels.
Sonya is the author of the children’s activity books Math Puzzlers (Scholastic) and Traditional African American Arts & Activities (John Wiley & Sons). She self-published the children’s picture book The Sandcastle Kids: A Mayan Adventure, and a book of poetry titled Stages: Poetry & prose that reflect a life's journey.
She has created The Creative Content Hub, a business that provides content consulting and creation to individuals and organizations. The service offers written copy for web sites, blogs, and press releases; and provides guidance in using the proper tools to create an effective marketing, social media presence and promotion/public relations strategy.
In assisting other authors, Sonya has edited the books The One Week Budget by Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, How to Gain Victory Over Memory Loss by Jason Alvarez, Writes of Passage: A Collection of Prose by Arts Access Writers, and other texts. Also a poet, Sonya has taken her love of the written word and applied it to her work with the developmentally disabled and with teenagers. As a writing facilitator, she has developed a writing system that uses pictures to aid the disabled (some who cannot communicate verbally) in writing sentences. The result has been the creation of poems, essays, short stories, and seven published books written by the participants.
Sonya is a graduate of Rutgers University (Douglass College) where she majored in English.
