Zachary Delano Middleton is a young adult fiction writer and motivational speaker that desires to see young people connect the dots between their experiences at school and the "real world" as adults. He seeks to provide this through a "12 Reasons School Matter in Real Life" edutainment talk / session that seeks to foster vocational imagination, entrepreneurial creativity and to improve literacy.

Zach was born and reared in Orangeburg, SC. Zach is the great nephew of civil rights martyr, Delano Middleton, killed in the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968. A 2010 graduate of South Carolina State University, he holds a Bachelor's in Business Management. As a student, Middleton was the SGA president and a member of two MEAC Championship Football teams.

His work Running after Delano has been highlighted as the Editor's Pick in the Times and Democrat, an Orangeburg SC Newspaper. It has also been featured in the "Happenings" Section of the Post and Courier, a Charleston, SC newspaper. Middleton also received the opportunity to interview the featured guest Mr. Robert Caldwell (who was the friend of Delano Middleton) for the NPR Storycorps podcast series entitled Unresolved.

Middleton is committed to the local church, works as a life advisor for Oliver Gospel Mission in Columbia, SC and his favorite passage of scripture is 1 Corinthians 15. He is the owner of Grace to Cultivate LLC; a brand focused on helping the next generation work smarter and not just harder.

He has written Running After Delano which seeks to help young people connect the dots between the historic Civil Rights Movement and their own lives. He is currently working on two other series Rashard Freeman - Teenage Entrepreneur and The Backstories of the Trampoline Academy.

For questions or for booking email - zach@gracetocultivate.com

For writing samples from this author check out. - https://www.goodreads.com/story/list/75839765

For more on his products and services check out. -https://linktr.ee/Gracetocultivate