ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elizabeth Marino was born to a Puerto Rican couple in Chicago's old Hyde Park barrio, and was raised in an Italian/German American family in the southwest Chicago suburbs, famed for musicians and gangsters. She holds an MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago's Writers Program and a BA from Barat College (with English literature and history at Oxford University). She works as an itinerant adjunct instructor of English. She is also an actor/director, working under her stage (and birth) name of "Micaela Mastierra".

Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies Between the Heart and the Land/Entre el corezon y la tierra: Latina poets in the Midwest (Chicago: MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001), Dark Waters Speaking (Chicago: La Onda Negra Press, forthcoming), Breaking Mirrors/Raw Images (4:30 Poets) and College Poetry Review, the magazines: Moon Journal, After Hours, Strong Coffee, Nit & Wit, Envisage (UK), the NAB Gallery Pamphlet Series, and she has appeared on the spoken word CD Elements of Life, Love & Action with the improve troupe She Laughs. She has published creative non-fiction, interviews, and articles in The Chicago Journal and S.H.E.. She published ner first poem at the age of fifteen in the Illinois English Bulletin.

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