A Living Witness: The Journal Writing of My Life, Healing, and God.

Craig Wiggins was born in Beth Israel Hospital in New York City on March 14, 1981. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, raised by his late mother and grandmother. With an absentee father throughout his life, Craig attended Private and Catholic school during his youth. Wiggins attended and graduated from Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, where the late, legendary rapper, the Notorious B.I.G. once attended, but later transferred out. After graduating from Loughlin in 1999, he enrolled in Long Island University Brooklyn Campus studying Journalism. A year and a half later, he transferred to Borough of Manhattan Community College, where he pursued and graduated with an associate's degree in English (Writing and Literature) in June 2007. He currently reside in New York City.