Rahiem Jerome Brooks is the breakout novelist and is a member of the Mystery Writer's of America. His debut thriller, LAUGH NOW won the 2010 African-Americans on the Move Book Club's (AAMBC) Book of the Year & he earned 2011 AAMBC Author of the Year. LAUGH NOW also received the Most Creative Plot at the DMV Expo's Creative Excellent Awards.

Rahiem was also nominated at the 2011 & 2012 African-American Literary Awards for Mystery of the Year for Con Test and Murder in Germantown.

Rahiem Brooks worked on a Film/TV certificate program at University of California, Los Angeles. However, he currently studies English at Harvard University. He permanently resides in Philadelphia, PA with a Manx.