www.miraptacin.com

mira ptacin is a brooklyn-based creative nonfiction and children’s book writer. her work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, such as the morning news, anderbo, cerise press, lumina, epiphany, smith magazine, nerve.com, the citron review, commondreams.org, truthout.org and more. she’s a contributing writer to the forthcoming book, the moment (2011 harper perennial) and recently wrote her first children’s book, which will be published in 2011 by disney-hyperion. this year, mira was nominated for the 2011 best american essays as well as the 2011 pushcart prize. she's a graduate of the salt institute for documentary studies, where she produced and published “working for the living” written documentary about the life of family-run funeral homes. she holds an masters of fine arts in nonfiction writing from sarah lawrence college and is the former editor-at-large of their literary magazine, lumina. she has led creative writing workshops at the valhalla women’s correctional