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MONIQUE MARIA SCHMIDT was born in Kansas and moved with her family to a sheep farm in a Mennonite community in South Dakota.
After completing her undergraduate degree, she studied and worked in France before joining the Peace Corps. She has also lived
and worked in Japan, the West Indies and Latin America. With an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University, she currently
teaches composition and creative writing in a university in Colorado and is at work on her second book.
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GERALDINE KENNEDY served with the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers in Liberia during the heady time of independence for
many African nations. She returned to the United States to raise a family, have a hand in local politics, earn a masters
degree, and found a publishing company. She is an officer of PEN-USA and lives happily in sunny Southern California.
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