Back To Life - Softcover

Living in New Jersey, she contributed articles to The East Coast Rocker, Private Eye, and Downtown magazines in New Jersey. She also wrote articles for Elan and In Print, fashion and lifestyle magazines in Nassau, Bahamas. She has interviewed luminaries from Betsey Johnson to singer Johnny Kemp, an internationally-known Bahamian singer/songwriter.

Coakley-Thompson possesses a Ph.D. in Education from Syracuse University. Her dissertation is entitled The Use of Popular Media in Multicultural Education: Stressing Implications for the Black/Non-Black Biracial North American Student. Having a biracial grandmother and coming from such a racially diverse West Indian family and culture has driven Coakley-Thompson to explore race relations, interracial marriage, and colorism in her scholarly and mainstream fiction writings. She also discusses the sometimes-painful dichotomy of being a patriotic first generation American who also experiences the simultaneous inextricable pull of the old country.

Coakley-Thompson lives in northern Virginia. She is a commentator for Morning Edition and Metro Connection on WAMU, a Washington D.C. National Public Radio affiliate. Back to Life is her first novel.