Putting Together a Writing Portfolio

Five/Six Line Biography (as requested by Professor Seve Torres at Rutgers-Camden):

I am the product of a twenty-seven year old, college-educated, Dutch-American mother and a sixth-grade-educated, forty-year old German American father. And yet, I received equally important but different, learning from my father (and the Catholic Church) and from my mother (through music and the arts).

I am also a product of Manhattan, Tokyo, Hawaii and Camden, N.J.

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Putting together a Writing Portfolio for Professor Torres’ Creative Writing Class…

Who is this person? Who, so long ago, fell in love with Japan, and is still

connected with children of this world…