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New York Times bestselling author Nancy Redd is on a worldwide tour speaking about the making of her book BODY DRAMA , which is also a USA Today bestseller, an NAACP Image Award Nominee, was honored by the American Library Association in 2009, and has been translated into Russian, German, and Italian.

Currently the spokeswoman for U by Kotex, a hip new product line for teen girls, Nancy is also working on her next book, DIET DRAMA, while serving as a columnist at Woman’s Day, J-14, and American Cheerleader, a contributing editor to the 2010 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a self-esteem advisor to FITNESS magazine, and as an AOL Health Insider.

Nancy has been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’ The Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, The Tyra Show, E! True Hollywood Stories, PEOPLE magazine, NPR, PBS, Inside Edition, and more.

Nancy got a running start on her goal to empower a new generation of women with the priceless gift of self-knowledge when two weeks after graduating from Harvard with an honors degree in Women’s Studies, she won the title of Miss Virginia and went on to make the Top 10 and win the swimsuit competition at Miss America.  Nancy has also served as an editor for the Dove campaign’s MSN.com site, as the worldwide spokesperson for Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends & Influence People for Teen Girls, and as contributing editor at CosmoGIRL! magazine.  In college, Nancy was named one of America’s top-ten women “most likely to succeed—at anything,” by GLAMOUR magazine, was named L’OREAL’s Beauty of Giving Young Woman of the Year, helped to write The Girls’ Guide to the SAT, and was one of HARVARD magazine’s Top Six Seniors.

Nancy grew up in Southern Virginia and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Rupak Ginn.