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Elena Hooks (born June 10, 1989) is an American novelist from Detroit. She is also an active member of New York Cares. She owns a popular blog about her everyday life in New-York. Her first book will be published in 2015 by Dutton.

Early life and carrer
Elena Hooks was born in Detroit, Michigan, on June 10, 1989. Her mother, Patricia Hooks (1957-2007) was a teacher at the Detroit City High School and her father John Hooks (1957-) was a journalist. Her father had a room in their house only dedicated to books, it was her favorite room in the house. She spent countless hours reading english or french books. Having a father of french descent, she had always been interested in France. During elementary school, she participated to various writing contests. Hooks met the poet Philip Levine thanks to one of the contest. She attended Detroit City High School where she was an active writer for the high school monthly journal. Her articles were about racial issues and literacy in Detroit. She attended the University of Michigan during two years for French Studies. She didn't graduate from the University of Michigan and decided to move to New York to become a full-time writer. Before New-York she decided to travel around the world to meet new people and cultures. Hooks was also a free-lance journalist for The Detroit News, she wrote a lot about the Detroit Financial Crisis. In New-York she had to send to a lot of book publishers her novel but only Dutton Books accepted to publish it.

Philantropy
Living in Detroit made her Face poverty and illiteracy. So, Elena Hooks decided to join New York Cares when she moved in New-York. She is teaching creative writing to high schooler.

Personal life
Hooks is currently living in the Theater District, Manhattan. She has an older brother who is in the United States Marine Corps. Her mother's death has been the trigger mechanism for her to pursuit her dream. She created recently a Twitter profile and a blog so she can be known globally. She has few articles online already, most of them about NYC. She's treating fresh subjects, but also more serious ones, she wrote an engaged article about the breast cancer which is probably related to her mother's death. Hooks' models are J.K. Rowling, Nicolas Sparks , John Green , because they write about subjects everybody can identify to, which is for her the most important goal when you're writing a book. To her every kind of books are relevant as soon as people can relate to them. She joined New York Cares to help people but also to inspire her for her writings because she wants to write about meaningful subjects. She thinks everybody should be listened and she wants to be the voice of people that can't be heard. Hooks' writings are various, she writes about political and economic issues but also about love and death because everybody goes through those subjects.

Future writing
Elena's first publication is coming soon on February 2015 with her first book Ambiguous reality where she exposes her personal experience about all her trips and what she’d seen around the world. Elena Hooks explains how she felt seeing so many poverty in her hometown and elsewhere. She gives her point of view about the economic and political aspects, she does it through a beautiful story of a revolutionary girl who has the courage to raise her voice beside the situation. She is planning to publish the poems and articles she wrote a long time ago during middle school. She wants to keep anonymous her old articles because she considered herself different at this time and now she has a bigger revolutionary spirit On a near future she wants to collaborate as co-writer with one famous writer. Meanwhile, she keeps writing articles on her blog page.