Tuesday, August 30, 2011

#140: SLSC - Day 36

Day 36: Fatima Koroma (the poet)

Fatima Koroma is a 25 years old nurse/poet, born November 9th in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Fatima came to the United State at the age of 9 years old. She attended Gladys noon Spellman elementary and Kenmore middle school in Landover Maryland. Fatima maintains a 3.0 average at Kenmore middle school and was given funds from the foundation of Education. She discovered interest in writing poe...ms at Duval high school during her freshman years. Fatima enrolled in drama, art classes and stayed after school programs to practice scenes and plays.

Fatima went into the field of nursing and business technology after graduating from high school 2003. Fatima attended Virginia Highland Community college in West Virginia in 2005. She became a licensed practice nurse and earns a diploma in business technology in 2007. During her college years she competes in poetry contest honoring African American history with “I have a dream” poem, she won second place.

Fatima moved back to Northern Virginia in 2008 and work for Alexandria hospital for two years. She also works for The Hermitage of Northern Virginia and Cherrydale Nursing home as a licensed practice nurse. As a full time employer she attended Northern Virginia community, taking prerequisites to transfer and obtain a bachelors degree. Fatima earned a degree in applied science 2010 at Northern Virginia community college.
In 2010, she got accepted in Indiana State University and took few online nursing classes. Fatima is now studying physician assistant at Howard University. She currently works full time for the city of Fairfax with opiates addicts in an outpatient setting. The goal is to help people get off opiates, maintain abstinence and get their lives back.
 
As a full time college student and a mother of a two year old daughter, Fatima continues writing. Writing is Fatima' comfort zone with all the struggles in her life. Poetry is her passion; she writes what is in her heart and enjoys writing .Her writing targets relationships, dreams, goals, love, spiritual, wisdom, achieving and aspects of life. Fatima’s first book called “Fatima’s poetry of life “ is now in all stores and consists of 51 poems and many other things.
*This biography was taken from Ms. Fatima's Facebook fan page.

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