Joyce Yvette Davis was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 27, 1959. She is the youngest girl of seven children. When she was thirteen her family moved to Southern California. She discovered she had a knack for writing in her 8th grade creative writing class. From that point on, she pursued writing as a career.

She received her Bachelor's Degree in Communications Arts from Cal Poly University in Pomona, Ca. For the past 20 years she has been a Quality Control Editor for a large information publishing company while occasionally writing freelance articles. When her employer sold the company, she took the retirement package and decided it was time to finish writing the book she had started years ago. She has one son, Brandon Jossef Davis, and a grandson, Brandon Jr.