Colishia S. Benjamin

Colishia S. Benjamin is an inspirational author, inspiring screenwriter, visionary, and CNA living in North Carolina. She spent most of her adult life caring for others, working 23years in the healthcare field as a nursing assistant and as a habilitation technician. Her duties caring for the elderly and children with special needs exposed her to powerful emotional stories on a daily basis. The brave and remarkable individuals she met became the inspiration for her characters.

Starting as a poet and short story writer, Colishia knew she had more to say, and desired to develop and expand her writing into inspirational poetry, novels and screenplays. Colishia graduated from Full Sail University in 2014. She earned her BFA in Creative Writing for Entertainment. In 2011, she saw two of her poems published, including A Silly School Girl Crush, appearing in the book From A Window: Harmony by Ebner & Wein Publishing, and Taboo appearing in the Anthology Stars in Our Hearts. In September of 2012, WestBow Press published her work Poetry of Life. Colishia is now in the process of writing her first feature length screenplay titled The Cry: a horror film about an evil entity haunting and killing vacationers on a secluded island. She’s also in the process of working on her second book that will be released in the fall of 2022.