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Rina Olsen

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Rina Olsen is the Korean-American author of Third Moon Passing. A 2024 YoungArts Winner in the Writing: Novel category, she has been recognized for her writing by the John Locke Institute, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, the Sejong Cultural Society, and Guam History Day, and she was invited to serve as an instructor for Polyphony Lit’s Summer 2023 writing workshop Around the World of Poetry in 80 Days. She usually finds herself juggling writing, high school, and editing for the teen literary magazines Polyphony Lit, Blue Flame Review, and Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine. When she isn’t writing, Rina can be found playing the piano, looking up obscure history, or with her nose buried in a good book. She currently lives on Guam.

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Third Moon Passing

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Anthony Doerr
“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

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“Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.”
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“Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.”
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“...in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being part of an enterprise that will outlast you.”
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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
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