Nikki Turner

Nikki Turner is an American author of urban fiction, dubbed by Trendsetter Magazine as the "Queen of Hip Hop Lit". Her first two books, A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick have sold about 150,000 copies as of 2005.

Turner was born in Richmond, Virginia and has received a degree from North Carolina Central University. She formerly worked as a travel agent, eventually quitting to become a full-time novelist. Turner has stated that she began writing urban fiction as a way of showing the "dark side" of the street life beyond the "glitz and the glamor". Riding Dirty on I-95: A Novel (2006) Death Before Dishonor (2007) Black Widow: A Novel (2008) Street Chronicles Girls in the Game (2008) Christmas in the Hood (2008) Ghetto Superstar: A Novel (2009) Relapse: A Novel (2010) Natural Born Hustler (2010) A Woman's Work (2011) A Project Chick II (2013) The Glamorous Life 2 (2013) The Banks Sisters (2015) Carl Weber's Kingpins: MIam (2015)

Girls from Da Hood Girls from Da Hood (2006) Tales from da Hood (2006) Girls From Da Hood 2 (2008) Girls from da Hood 4 (2010)

Hustler's Wife series A Hustler's Wife (2002) Forever a Hustler's Wife: A Novel (2008) Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife: A Novel (2011)

Unique Note: This series was released as an e-serial from 2012 to 2014 Unique (2014) Unique II: Betrayal (2012) Unique III: Revenge (2012) Unique IV: Love & Lies (2013) Unique V: Secrets Revealed (2014) Always Unique (2014, collects stories I - V)