Nita Whitaker is a former ICU registered nurse-turned Miss Louisiana, an accomplished singer, and award-winning actress and author. Whitaker’s first independently published memoir, Finding My Voice: My Journey through Grief to Grace, won the Indie Discovery Book Award (Aging/Death and Dying) and two National Indie Excellence Book Awards in the Grief and Memoir Categories. She honors her dad with the release of her father/daughter narrative memoir, When Your Hand is in the Lion’s Mouth: The Life and Wisdom of a Man named Green.
