Obiora Embry

A multi‐talented individual

Obiora Embry is not only an author but also a poet, amateur photographer, born again artist, entrepreneur, Plant grower, and a developer with a Love for what is real and natural. He finds beauty in Nature and knows that we must "awaken from our collective slumber" to solve the problems we humans have created. Obiora is a life‐long learner and on his journey he has been educating and healing himself; mentoring and educating others; volunteering; growing Plants and cooking flavorful, colorful, healthy meals; and much more.

Author, Writer, & Poet

Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions: Reflections and Thoughts Related to the Struggle for Peace, Sustainability, Equality, and the Search for Humanity, my first book, is a compilation of poetry, college essays, letters to the editor, editorials, and other non‐fiction writing that I wrote between 1999 and 2006. The content is a part of the metamorphosis that I experienced as I became a spiritual person. This work of non‐fiction covers a wide range of topics that are just as timely today as they were when the first edition was published in 2013. Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions invokes various human emotions that can hopefully help you, the reader, better understand your place in this modern world & more importantly to develop a better sense of how we humans get back to Nature and reconnect with each other.

My books include the following:

  • Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions: Re­flections and Thoughts Related to the Struggle for Peace, Sustainability, Equality, and the Search for Hu­man­ity; Sec­ond Edition, 2026, Author.
  • Me, Myself, and I Ought to Know: Autobiographical Poems from 1999‐2025; 2026, Author.
  • Bittersweet Memories: A Collection of Poems from 1996‐2024, 2026, Author.
  • Love & Other Emotions: Poems from 1990‐2001, 2026, Author.
  • The Embry Family Cookbook, 2nd Edition; 2026, Con­tributor and Book Creator.
  • Tuning to the Soil‐ed Seed Vibrations For Our Collective Health, 2024, Co‐Author.
  • Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions: Reflections and Thoughts Related to the Struggle for Peace, Sustainability, Equality, and the Search for Humanity; First Edition, 2013, Author. (Out of Print)
  • Whole Measures for Community Food Systems (WM CFS): Stories from the Field, 2012, Co-Author.

Born‐again artist

I was raised within a tight‐knit extended family where I learned how to make‐do, think out of the box, and about the importance of family and Nature. Growing up I was a budding visual artist who enjoyed sketching and drawing so much that I had thought about pursuing a career as an art teacher or to be a non‐starving artist. In the late 1990 or 1991 I received a 110 camera as a birthday present and added a new creative hobby: photography. With my trusty 110 camera, I photographed Nature, friends, road trips, and family gatherings. However for different reasons I lost my creativity during my adolescence...

When I resurrected my inner artist, I mainly brought back my love for photography.

Consultant

In 2006 I started EConsulting™, an eco‐conscious consulting company that offers diverse services.

Developer

I started programming in the 1990s and turned my hobby into a career in 2006. Most of my programming projects and/or work history is on my résumé.