Selena Montgomery is the award-winning author of several romantic suspense novels.  Selena won both the Reviewer’s Choice Award and the Reader’s Favorite Award from Romance In Color for Best New Author, and was featured as a Rising Star.  “Part of Ms. Montgomery’s strength is her characterization.  [Her characters] are solid creations, complex individuals who are breathing flawed individuals.  The world that they live in is not the romanticized world of James Bond, but a dangerous, real world.” (Romance In Color) 

Like the alter egos in her novels, Selena maintains a dual identity as Georgia State Representative Stacey Y. Abrams.  Stacey represents Atlanta, Decatur and South DeKalb County in the Georgia General Assembly, where she serves as House Democratic Caucus Assistant Whip. She is also the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Insomnia Group, LLC, an investment and development firm.  Formerly, Stacey was Deputy City Attorney for Government Counsel, Development and Infrastructure for the City of Atlanta. Appointed at the age of 29, she was the youngest person ever to hold the position. 

Stacey is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 2007 Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, a 2004 American Marshall Memorial Fellow and served as a Georgia delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention.  She is also an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta, Leadership Georgia, the Regional Leadership Institute and the American Council of Young Political Leaders.  She has published articles on issues of public policy, taxation and nonprofit organizations, including pieces with The American Prospect, The Christian Science Monitor, Yale Law and Policy Review, and the Southern University Law Review.  She chairs the Women’s Legacy Group for the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta, and sits on the Board of Visitors for Emory University, the Board of Trustees for St. Joseph’s Health System, the Board of Directors for Literacy Action and the Board of Directors for the Gateway Center.

Stacey received her J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1999.  She graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 with an M.P.Aff.  in public policy. She earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Political Science, Economics and Sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude, in 1995.