Anita is an NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee, a member of the TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS, a recipient of a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times magazine. Published by Penguin USA: Black Gold, Starlight Passage, Wild Embers, Balancing Act.  Kensington: Mirrored Life, Between Goodbyes, Harper Collins: Sisters, Girfriends, Harlequin: Vote for Love, Boardroom Seduction.

Many of her novels, anthologies, and romances have appeared in Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, Black Expressions Book Club, and on Essence Magazine's Black Board: African American Best-seller list in both hardcover and paperback. Anita lives in Houston,TX.