K. Elliott was raised and attended High School in the Charlotte North Carolina area. After High School he attended Central Piedmont Community College in the early nineties. It was during this time that the drug trade was flourishing. Broke and homeless he dropped out of school and dabbled in the drug trade before having a run-in with the law and a brief stay in jail. After seeing several family members locked away for long periods of time, he decided the drug game wasn’t the route he wanted to take in life so he re-enrolled in school and maintained a 3.0 G.P.A. During this time one of the professors took special interest in his writing skills and pulled him aside one day and encouraged him to pursue writing. And writing became his passion. Over the years he took creative writing workshops and classes and ended up in a class taught by poet Irene Honeycutt, who introduced the Elliott to poetry and gave him an understanding of the power of language. Though initially in opposition to poetry, Elliott was very competitive and refused to show up to class without a poem—wanting to outdo the other students. It was during this period that his poetry began to take wonderful form and was crafted with precision. Elliott even placed in a competition and later earned a scholarship to the North Carolina Writer’s Conference in 2001 the same year in which he began working on his first Novel entitled “Entangled.” Upon completion of the novel he was offered two book deals that specialized in his genre. One from Triple Crown publications based in Ohio and the other was from Kensington Publishing, a major publishing house in New York. Because he did not believe that either publisher would put the energy into the project that he thought it deserved, Elliott decided to finance his own project in order to pursue his dream of being a published author and publish his first piece of fiction through his company Urban lifestyle Press due out in Mid-August.