Author and speaker, Kendy Ward first garnered recognition as a winner of BET’s First Time Writer’s Competition when her short story, The Perfect Story, was published in the BET Books anthology All That and Then Some. Later her first non-fiction work was published in the inspirational and empowering compilation, No Glory without a Story. In 2012 she took her a writing career to another level when she authored her first self-published work, God-Esteem: Seeing the God in You. Her first full length work of fiction, Oh Romeo, Romeo, the first book in The Knight in Damaged Armor series, was released in late 2015.  Her newest release, Only One Knight, Book Two in the Knight in Damaged Armor series, is now available on Amazon. 
As a Toastmasters International award-winning speaker, Kendy has spoken throughout South Florida and the Bahamas on topics of faith, empowerment and self-improvement. She was ordained as a minister at Hope United Church in 2015, where she serves in various ministry capacities. She graduated Cum Laude from Northwood University with a Bachelor’s in International Business and Management. She is currently the Chief Operations Officer at a construction company. She is the daughter of Kenneth and Trudy Ward, the sister of Denise Poitier and Quincy Ward, and the proud aunty of Zylen, Zaire, Zeden, Zion, and Zaq.