Annikalia H. Taylor is a 23-year-old author who was born in San Jose, California, but currently resides in Antioch, Illinois. Even though Taylor primarly writes poetry, she will be releasing her first novel on mental health later this year titled What I Wish You Knew, the first book in Taylor's Silence series. Taylor has been writing since she was the young age of just 9 years old and is working on self-publishing some of her old works as well as creating new writing.