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Ken Marden grew up in Maine and went to Columbia University. He has lived in Japan and currently works for the United States-Japan Program at Harvard. His purpose in this story, written in Marina De Gramont's Beginning Fiction, was to explore social hierarchies among adolescents; here, he says, he tried to "capture that time when the two young girls are first entering the competitive social world." Elizabeth Bickford lives at St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island, where she teaches English and coaches lacrosse. "Spin the Bottle" is a scene from a short story (her first) she wrote as the final project for Deborah Wilkes's Beginning Fiction. Lin Fenno Gallagher is a writer who lives in Yarmouth, Maine. Her particular interests are memoir and journalism. She was a student in Jane Brox's Advanced Memoir, and she wrote this piece as the first chapter of her memoir, which she describes as "a coming-of-age-at-fifty type thing." Leah James Abel lives in New York City and attends Hunter College, where she is majoring in theater and dance. A student in Sandra King's Expository Writing: Social and Ethical Issues (the topic of which was American documentaries), Abel wrote this piece as a proposal for a documentary film on a field study of wolf habitats in which she participated last year. Farley Griner is a senior at Salem High School in Conyers, Georgia. She wrote "Apples and Oranges" in Susan Carlisle's Memoir; the assignment was to recount a memorable meal. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Justin Kramon is a sophomore at Swarthmore College, where he studies English, philosophy, and music. He wrote this story in Marina de Gramont's Beginning Fiction. Laura Lambert lives in Boston and is currently pursuing a Certificate in Publishing and Communications at the Harvard Extension School. She wrote this piece in Jane Brox's Advanced Memoir; it is the first chapter of a longer work about friendship between girls and, later, between women. Kevin Morrissette is a department administrator at the Harvard School of Public Health. His poem, "Mimeograph," was the result of an assignment in Janet Sylvester's Beginning Poetry; students were asked to write a poem with the sense of smell predominating. According to Morrissette, it was a challenging assignment because the sense of smell is the most difficult sense to capture in words. Timothy Oppelt lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area where he is a student at Brookwood High School. He wrote the following three poems in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry. "I Walk Alone" resulted from a free assignment that offered students the chance to write about any subject, in any form and style. An assignment to write a great American poem promped "One Generation." "Contradiction in Motion" was Oppelt's response to a self-portrait assignment that called on students to compare themselves with an object or objects. Amy Ruszkiewicz, a senior at Warwick Valley High School in New York, wrote "Nicholas's Daughter" in David London's Beginning Fiction, the first fiction-writing course she's taken. Jon Schroeder, a freshman at Dartmouth College, wrote "The Denali Llama" in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry. Erika Wolf is currently working towards her Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree with a concentration in psychology at the Harvard Extension School. She is also a professional ballet dancer affiliated with the Boston Dance Company. The following piece developed from a single sentence written as an in-class exercise in Susan Carlisle's Memoir. Jodi Yang is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. This piece resulted from an assignment in Robert DiYanni's Writing and the Essay. The assignment called on students to write a personal narative that explored a memory evoked by a particular image or object; the goal of the assignment was to leave the reader with a thought-provoking idea or concept. |
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