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conversations.value: a title for a book about Mississippi with the genre: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Books, Literature & Fiction
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Say Uncle'
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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Say Uncle about Chris, Writing, San with the genre: Parenting & Relationships, Family Relationships.
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conversations.value: Chris the author is a writing teacher at the middle school level where she has also taught art and journalism, and has been the publisher of the school newspaper and yearbook. She has a bachelors degree with honors in her major of Aesthetics and Learning from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Masters of Arts degree in Education with a bilingual emphasis from San Francisco State University. Chris has taken numerous fine art courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and UC extension courses. Her first love was painting before she discovered writing. Chris has traveled extensively. Besides teaching creative writing, she has been writing herself for the past fifteen years. She has participated in the Bay Area Writing Project, has written in various groups under the guidance of Adair Lara and Janis Cook Newman as well as other teachers from The Writing Salons, where her piece on Growing Up First Generation was selected for presentation at the San Francisco Public Library. She has a quote in Adair Laras latest book Naked, Drunk and Writing. Her piece, Eye of a Fly was aired on NPRs segment Perspectives, and more recently, I Quit about leaving the public school system. She has recently finished her first book, a memoir about her experiences with her unconventional family, and is working on a second about her relationships with men. What people have said about Chris the author Chris is a natural writer. -Adair Lara The voice thats coming through in your writing is so real and honest. It is a very compelling quality. You write like an angel. -Professor, UC Santa Cruz Writing for Reentry Women