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American author

For other uses, see Nikki Turner (disambiguation).

Nikki Turner is an American author of urban fiction, dubbed by Trendsetter Magazine as the "Queen of Hip Hop Lit".^[1] Her first two books, A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick have sold about 150,000 copies as of 2005.^[2]

Turner was born in Richmond, Virginia and has received a degree from North Carolina Central University.^[3] She formerly worked as a travel agent, eventually quitting to become a full-time novelist.^[4] Turner has stated that she began writing urban fiction as a way of showing the "dark side" of the street life beyond the "glitz and the glamor".^[3]

Bibliography

• A Project Chick (2003)
• The Glamorous Life: A Novel (2005)^[5]
• Riding Dirty on I-95: A Novel (2006)^[6]
• Death Before Dishonor (2007)
• Black Widow: A Novel (2008)
• Street Chronicles Girls in the Game (2008)
• Christmas in the