

It was her twenty-second published work and her husband's first. In 2017, Kendra and Michael jointly wrote a 31-day relationship devotional entitled Cross-Fire. Kendra eventually found true love again, and she and her current husband, Michael married in 2014. Most of her true life experience is captured in two of her nonfiction published works, I Shall Not Die and The Path From Pain to Purpose, both of which are highly acclaimed books. Her life took many twists and turns during the years following Jimmy's death. She was given a computer as a college graduation gift. There, she was inducted into the National Vocational Technical Honor Society.

She worked days, and in the evenings, she pursued higher education at Valdosta Technical College ( Valdosta, Georgia), where she majored in Information Office Technology and graduated in 1997. Shortly thereafter, she wrote her first fictional manuscript, For Love & Grace, published in 2002.

She crafted her first piece of poetry as an elementary school student, but Kendra did not grow to recognize her gift as a creative writer until 1999 when she began keeping a journal during the lingering heartache of the death of her husband. He died on October 5, 1995, a few days before their 7th wedding anniversary, and in her grief, Kendra began to write. Shortly after their daughter Crystal was born, Jimmy was diagnosed with AIDS, possibly as the result of a blood transfusion. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Valdosta, GA when Kendra was 21 and Jimmy was 20. Her first husband, Jimmy (whose last name was also Holmes - no relation to Michael) died. Kendra and her husband, Michael Holmes, share a blended family of two daughters and one son. She graduated from Brooks County High School in Quitman, Georgia. Kendra Norman is a native of West Palm Beach, Florida, but spent most of her formative years in southern Georgia. Her novels are known and widely applauded for their positive male lead characters and their combined romantic and suspenseful story lines. Kendra Norman (born December 17, 1966) is an African-American writer of Christian fiction and non-fiction Christian literature. Kendra Norman (formerly writing as Kendra Norman-Bellamy)
