1. I don't like English, don't shoot me scholars.
2. When I was younger, I wanted to be a teacher, then a beautician, and then a business executive. Never a writer.
3. My full name is Shai(rhymes with hay) Lynn Kai Davis. Shai Lynn is my first name. My mom says Kai is pronounced Kaia. I changed the pronunciation and it rhymes with sky.
4. The first poem I ever wrote was called Alone and it is the only poem I know by heart.
5. My only international publication has been in Essence magazine.
6. I have been writing poetry off and on for 20 years, I never planned to share it with the world. Then I shared it publicly in 2000.
7. When I was a teen, I was fascinated with Billie Holiday, I used to sit in the library for hours reading about her.
8. I love to research as a hobby.
9. I used to suck my thumb until I was 9 and I got an orthodontic device to stop it. I was nicknamed Jaws.
10. Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was my favorite poem in high school.
