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I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, an only child of a single mother, I spent my youth riding my bike and reading incessantly. My college days were spent at University of California at Irvine where I studied English with a writing emphasis and then I studied at UC Santa Cruz taking a degree in education. I imagined I would be a teacher like my mother, or maybe I would write for magazines. When I had my children, I loved being a stay-at-home parent. I gardened, cooked, volunteered at their schools. When my youngest entered preschool, I took a writing class and then I took another. Soon I gave up gardening and took up early rising to write at my desk. With my kids in elementary school I wrote in coffeehouses and at the library, in the parkin ...more

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I always tell my writing students to make a bold entrance with their stories, capture attention, invite curiosity. Consider the first line from “Love Is Not A Pie,” this month’s story by Amy Bloom, from her collection, Come To Me.

“In the middle of the eulogy at my mother’s boring and heartbreaking funeral, I began to think about calling off the wedding.”

Bang! I’m in. Funeral and wed

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