Maryam Wells

Maryam Alicia Wells is an American author known for the bestselling Sisterly Love and Teen Witch of Baldwin Hills book series. She has also wrote Sydney Fisher: Fashion Detective which will be released in 2019. Aside from her writing career, Wells also designs and markets her own line of fashion jewelry on QVU. She is also a stylist, and designer.

Biography
Wells was born in Los Angeles, California, the third child and first daughter of Eddie (who died of cancer in 2014) and Patty Wells. She has three siblings; Mikey (1983-1995), Byron (b. 1986), and Tiffany (b. 1994).

Wells graduated from Susan Miller Dorsey High School in 2008. She originally planned to attend Los Angeles Trade Technical College and majored in fashion design, but after the loss of her father, she changed her major to theatre and attended Los Angeles City College. But after a few class sessions, Wells lost interest in pursuing theatre and left LA City College. She returned to LA Trade Tech and back to her major in fashion. She put her plans to return to Trade Tech on hold to train as a manicurist at the Universal College of Beauty in order to earn money before returning to college.

Writer
Although she is currently studying fashion in college, Wells was also an teen young adult novelist. She has written two separate teen/young adult book series, Sisterly Love and Teen Witch of Baldwin Hills.

Sisterly Love series explains the lives of three young Los Angeles women, who are sisters named Eva, Dominique, and Tanzie Rollins.

Teen Witch of Baldwin Hills series was much more successful than Sisterly Love. It tells the story about an teenage girl in Baldwin Hills named Kat Martin, who discovers she is an witch, an descendant of an 17th-century powerful witch. Now Kat must use her powers and witchcraft to defeat demons and warlocks from destroying her neighborhood. It was followed by spin-off, The Jones Chronicles, about Kat's aunt and five cousins battling demons, warlocks, and monsters in Downtown Los Angeles. It make the series interesting, Wells added a storyline involving Kat's relationship with a teenage witch-warlock hybrid which her mother's didn't approve, her second relationship with an mortal, and a love triangle between her and her two love interests, struggling to accept her status as a powerful witch and her conflict with her mother. Also in The Jones Chronicles, Wells added storylines to the Jones witches, like Myra's inability to deal with events involving her daughter, China's birth and her death; Alexa's relationship with an mortal, older than her; Tasha's relationship and friction with an demon and her kidnap and the birth of her daughter, Becca; and Tina's lesbian relationship with an cheerleader.

Wells also wrote two novel series about teens dealing with social issues. The first was All About Us, based on the original TV series canceled in 2001 about four teenage girls in an fictional town in California dealing with school, home, and love. The second was Double Trouble about two teenage twin sisters causing crazy trouble, while dealing with normal teen issues.