Ta'Shay Mason
Author Ta’Shay Mason served sixteen years in the U.S. Army and is currently working as a licensed social worker at a Veterans Affairs hospitalal. She also volunteers at a grief counseling center as a facilitator helping children (between the ages of 5-8) process the grief over the death of a parent. As a child, she experienced the acu.... more
Author Ta’Shay Mason served sixteen years in the U.S. Army and is currently working as a licensed social worker at a Veterans Affairs hospitalal. She also volunteers at a grief counseling center as a facilitator helping children (between the ages of 5-8) process the grief over the death of a parent. As a child, she experienced the acute loss of her father; and her inspiration for her debut children's book, But i don’t want to say GOODBYE!, comes from her personal journey.
When Ta’Shay isn’t busy writing stories for children, she enjoys reading books, listening to a variety of music, and collecting vinyl. She loves to hike and travel and spend time with her family, including her relatives, her fur baby—an Old English bulldog named Bella—friends, and fellow veterans.
In sharing her message of overcoming grief, Ta’Shay hopes that readers with a similar experience can identify with the story’s family, learn a creative way of memorializing a loved one, that grief is a process and takes time, and that having a healthy and open conversation about death is helpful to that process.
Ta’Shay lives in Texas with Bella. Her series A Child's Journey Through Grief includes But i don't want to say GOODBYE! (published), It's Ok To Be Happy!(published), and Let's Celebrate! (will be published in Spring/Summer 2022).
