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Lady Annie Arnott, Basket Roots
After completing her commitments to her family, Lady Annie Arnott
has returned to school full time and is studying psychology and literature
at the American College in Dublin, Ireland. She wrote "Basket Roots"
after a visit to the Native American Hall at the Peabody Museum where
she noticed a serene painting of a Choctaw village by Francis Bernard.
Drawn by the tranquility and orderliness of the village, Annie reflected
on how the Choctaws sent money to the Irish during The Great Famine
of 1845-49. This poem became part of Annie's "Harvard Wonderings"
portfolio for Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry.
Robert Breen, The Eighth Circle
Robert Breen wrote "The Eighth Circle" in Janet Sylvester's Beginning
Poetry. Now a retired firefighter, Robert received his BS at UMass-Boston
and teaches at North Shore Technical High School.
Marissa A. Cheng, The Italy Poems
Marissa A. Cheng is a senior at Concord-Carlisle High School in Concord,
Massachusetts. A student in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry,
she wrote "The Italy Poems" after her first trip out of the country.
Having fallen in love with Venice, despite the pomegranate juice,
Marissa is now working on an independent study in Italian at her school.
Miranda Daniloff, Traces of Da
Miranda Daniloff wrote "Traces of Da," her first short story, in Maxine
Rodburg's Advanced Creative Writing: Writing Short Fiction.
A journalist, Miranda was delighted finally to get to make things
up. She currently works in the Communications Office at the Kennedy
School of Government.
Ann Deleon, Eclipse
Originally from Mexico, Ann Deleon is a research assistant at a Harvard
cell biology lab (where she receives her daily dose of radioisotopes).
At night she prefers not to glow in the dark but likes to play with
words and eat the "food of the Gods": chocolate. She enjoyed "speaking"
poetry with her hands in Janet Sylvester's Beginning Poetry,
where she learned to transform these gestures into sentences.
David Fries, Waiting for Foucault
David Fries is a social studies concentrator at Harvard College. "Waiting
for Foucault" is his first short story, inspired by his interest in
philosophy and psychopathology. It was written for Rachel Kadish's
Beginning Fiction. The version published here is a shortened
form of the original story.
Nitza M. Hidalgo, Stories from El Barrio
Nitza M. Hidalgo wrote "Stories from El Barrio" in Susan Carlisle's
Beginning Memoir. Nitza took the class to further the memoir
she began last year; she hopes to complete it next year when she'll
be on sabbatical from Westfield State College, where she teaches education.
Anil Kumar, The River That Divides Us
Anil Kumar wrote the essay "The River That Divides Us" for Philippa
Hayward's Expository Writing: Writing and the Essay. This piece
was based on his four-year involvement with the organization Casas
Por Cristo, which builds houses in the colonias of Juarez, Mexico.
Anil is currently a high school senior in El Paso, Texas.
Christina Lovin, North Side of the House
Christina Lovin wrote "North Side of the House" for an assignment
on self-reflective poetry in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry.
Writing about transplanted wildflowers, she delves into feelings of
loss and homesickness—the truth that "one can never go home again."
Christina is pursuing her undergraduate degree in creative writing.
Andrea Oseas, The Care and Feeding of Wild Things
Andrea Oseas is the assistant director of the Technology in Education
Program at Harvard and is also a painter, mother, and legendary chocoholic.
She wrote "The Care and Feeding of Wild Things" for Deborah Wilkes'
Beginning Fiction.
Betsy Sawyer-Melodia, Vows
Betsy Sawyer-Melodia wrote "Vows" in Maxine Rodburg's Advanced
Creative Writing: Writing Short Fiction; the story grew out of
her experience of being the youngest sibling trying to measure up
to the perfect older brother or sister, yet falling short of the mark.
Betsy has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Vermont.
John D. Thompson, The Bell Curve, Nuclear Family War
John D. Thompson teaches language arts in West Des Moines, Iowa and
has written two books of poetry. He wrote "The Bell Curve" and "Nuclear
Family War" in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry to comment on
the functional and dysfunctional aspects of family life he has seen
as an instructor and sibling.
Andrea L. Volpe, Snapshot
Andrea L. Volpe wrote "Snapshot" in Jane Brox's Advanced Memoir.
She holds a PhD in cultural history from Rutgers University and writes
about nineteenth-century photography. Her work in memoir is what she
calls "another take on the same subject—how photographers and
memories themselves are always partial, and how they make us think
about where meaning resides." She is at work on a larger project about
marriage and cancer, whose working title is "Writing for Jacob."
Joan Wilking, Just an Ordinary Thing, My Father in Love
Joan Wilking's short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Ablemuse,
In Posse Review, and the Mississippi Review. "My Father in Love" and
"Just an Ordinary Thing" were polished to their current shine in Maxine
Rodburg's Advanced Creative Writing: Writing Short Fiction.
Erika Wolf, Remainders
Erika Wolf wrote "Remainders" in Bruce Smith's Beginning Poetry.
This is her second piece of writing to be published by the Harvard
Summer Review. A professional ballet dancer and undergraduate
at the Extension School, Erika is concentrating in psychology and
plans to enter a doctoral program in clinical psychology in the fall
of 2001.
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