Some showers seen for drought-stricken crops

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A better chance of rain was expected late this week in portions of the drought-stricken U.S. Midwest, bringing some relief to the struggling corn and soybean crops, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday.

"The U.S. weather model has a little wetter forecast than yesterday, but overall it looks like a similar pattern in August that we saw at the end of July," said Jason Nicholls, meteorologist for AccuWeather.

Nicholls predicted 0.25 to 0.75 inch of rain could fall from now into the weekend in the northern and eastern Midwest, with about 70 percent coverage. From 0.10 to 0.50 inch of rain was forecast for the central and southern Midwest, with 50 percent coverage.

Another front was expected later next week, bringing similar amounts of rain, Nicholls said, but temperatures were forecast to soar again after cooling off a little over the weekend.

"Sunday will be cooler with highs in the upper 80s degrees Fahrenheit, but it will get hot again with highs in the 90s and a few 100s," he said.

Commodity Weather Group (CWG) on Wednesday also forecast a wetter outlook for the southern Midwest for Thursday and Friday, and said the chance of rain in the Delta had improved.

"The best chances for relief to soybeans are in Nebraska, the southern half of Illinois and Indiana, and the southern third of Ohio," said CWG's meteorologist Joel Widenor.

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybean futures prices were driven to record highs in late July as the worst drought in more than a half century spread throughout the country's heartland.

Prices for each were down more than one percent on Wednesday on the outlooks for some showers in the parched corn and soybean growing fields.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday rated 24 percent of the corn crop in good-to-excellent condition as of Sunday, and 29 percent of the soybean crop in good-to-excellent shape, both down 2 percentage points from the previous week.

The ratings for each were the worst since the comparable week in 1988, another year of severe drought in the nation's crop-growing mid-section.

Analysts and crop experts said further declines in condition ratings could be expected next week because the weather still stressed each crop.

The domestic corn crop shrunk another 2.5 percent over the past week, but the modest decline suggested damage from drought may be nearing an end, a Reuters poll of analysts showed on Tuesday.

The soybean crop was likewise getting smaller. Hot and dry weather forecast for the Midwest farm belt for the next two weeks could do more damage to the crop, according to the analysts.

The poll of 13 analysts projected the corn crop will be the smallest in six years at 11.2 billion bushels, down 2.5 percent from a Reuters poll last week. The yield was pegged at 129 bushels per acre, the lowest in 14 years and down 1.5 percent from last week.

The analysts expected soybean yield per acre to be 38.1 bushels, down 1.2 percent from last week and the lowest figure in nine years. They forecast soy production at 2.834 billion bushels, down 2.2 percent from last week and a four-year low.

(Reporting By Sam Nelson; Editing by John Picinich)

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The Global Feast @ Stratford Old Town Hall - Cook sister!

It I were to tell you that?I dined off the coast of India last Saturday night, you'd probably be thinking: "What????She's travelling AGAIN?!".? But you'd be wrong.? In fact, I had to travel no further east than Stratford (a.k.a. Oympics Central!) to enjoy my dinner at The Global Feast, a new dining experience scheduled to co-incide with the London Olympic Games and taking place in Statford over the course of 20 nights in July and August.? Curated by Kerstin Rodgers of?London's Underground Restaurant, each of the 20?evenings will see a?different world cuisine being served, and each will be co-developed?and prepared with a different supperclub chef. Although I feared that on the first day of the London Olympics, Stratford would be absolutely jam-packed with people and impassable, it was pleasantly empty and I easily found the surprisingly tranquil Old Town Hall courtyard where the Global Feast is tucked away in a large marquee tent by a tinkly fountain. ??

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The global theme is further developed by the use if a most extraordinary installation as a dining table, called?Worldscape.?Designed by art and architecture studio Atos, Worldscape is described as a piece of continuous integrated?landscape furniture?- a table "built from and for the world, carved from its precise contours to provide seating for up to 100 people". ?Intrigued yet? ?I certainly was. Luckily creator Alex Haw was on hand to hop up onto his creation and talk us through it.?Worldscape uses the Equidistant Cylindrical map of the world, which maps all lines of latitude and longitude as perfeclt straight lines with nice, neat 90 degree angles between them, to create an inhabitable dining environment, merging seat and table. The table seems to be made from laquered, multi-layered pieces of wood, painstakingly cut by some clever machine to represent bits of the overall structure, and then numbered for easy(ish) assembly on site - like the worst IKEA nighmtare you can imagine. The largest world cities on the map are cleverly represented by conical holes cut through all the layers of the wood and are lit from below the table so as to become "geo-located light fixtures", and to give you an strong visual image of where our planet is most (and least) densely popoulated.?The whole structure is done according to scale, so the tallest pointy bits in the middle of the table are the Himalayas. ?According to the blurb, sea level provides the table's baseline height at its edges. ?So all diners eat at the same level, while seated on an integrated seat at the level bathymetric shelf of (2000 m below sea level) metres while the ocean floor tumbles away beneath them and the mountains soar above.?

Or, rather, they would... if the table were finished. When I visited about 4 nights into the 20-night run, we were seated on plain old chairs, not am integrated seabed-bench; the Alps had not yet been assembled; the deep valleys that score the planet's surface were still lying in yet-to-be-assembled pieces on the table and floor rather than suspended under the table, and they were mysteriously assembling a Himalaya 2.0 to replace the first set of peaks. Ah well. I did love the other bits and bobs on the table though, specifically the "mapkins" (bespoke cloth napkins made from beautful map-patterened abric, and the paper pom-poms and flowers everywhere made from old maps. ?Glorious attention to detail!?

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So what about the food? ?The night that I was invited to attended was billed as Swedish and Northern European night, and the guest chefs were Linn Soderstrom from Hemma Hos Linn supper club in Stockholm and Claudia Stachelhaus from White Room Supper Club in London). ?I was greeted on arrival with a cocktail containing chase Vodka (the only potato vodka made in the UK) before wandering off to find my dinner companions?Denise and Funda. ?The canap?s were served as we sat outside by the fountain and were both quite wonderful. ?First, there were garlicky shots of cucumber, mint and tarragon gazpacho (fresh, clean-flavoured and perfect for a hot summer's day); and Skagen Rora?(prawns in a sour cream and dill sauce on crispbread from Sweden). These were probably about on a par with, say, heroin for being addictive: plump little prawns, a creamy sauce, and crispbread that tasted buttery and sinful, rather than wholegrain and virtuous. I also loved the pretty, fresh daisy flower on each shard of crispbread.?

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Once we were seated at the table, the rest of the meal was served. ?Baskets of Swedish crispbread (2 different types) were accompanied by little bowls of impressively creamy homemade butter. We started with Swedish pickled herring with a 6-minute boiled egg, new potatoes, butter-cooked onions, beetroot and fantastic homemade mayo. I loved every single bite of this plate - from the soft, yielding egg to the earth beets, to the sweet onions, to the sweet-sour tang of the herring. ?But best of all was the mayo which I correctly guessed had been made iwth a hint of browned butter to give it an incredibly caramelly flavour. ?Fantastic. ?Why is all mayo not made like this?? ?The starter was well paired with an Austrian Rabl Gruner Veltliner.?

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Our main course consisted of rump steak braised in porter with new potatoes, carrots & blackcurrant jelly, and a creamy porter sauce - evidently Linn's grandmother's recipe. Now I would never think to serve rump steak like this - at Cooksister HQ rump steaks go straight on the barbecue or in the cast-iron griddle pan. ?But what a delicious way of serving it - think the tenderest pink beef roast you've ever tasted and you start to get the picture. The baby carrots it came with were crisply al dente, the porter sauce was rich and creamy and I am a sucker for sweet sauces with meat. ?Although not a dish that screams "Sweden" to me, this was nonetheless delicious.?

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The pre-dessert was not listed on the menu and initially had us scratching our heads. ?We were expecting a baked German cheesecake with berries; what arrived instead tasted more like, well... ice-cream with berries. Had they forgotten to bake the cake? ?Or was the German concept of "baked" something entirely diffreent to ours?? ?But the waitress soon solved the mystery by informing us that this was a pre-dessert of ice-cream with caramel and berries. I loved that the ice-cream tasted like the caramel ice-cream my mom used to make with sweetened condensed milk, and the tart berries provided a good, tart flavour balance. This was followed by the actual dessert of a baked German cheesecake. And what, you may ask, distinguishes a German cheesecake from other cheesecakes? Mostly the fact that it is made using quark rather than cream cheese - but in this case also that it came on a plate comprising the colour of the German flag: red strawberries, a black parcel of chocolate fudge, and a golden Haribo medal. Clever! The strawberries were lusciously good and the cake's consistency was definitely lighter most baked cheesecakes - but I still prefer the dense heaviness of a New York style cheesecake. Aftre dinner there was also some entertainment in the form of an acoustic set by German singer songwriter?Gon von Zola (The Budda Cakes), whose music I rather liked.

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And the verdict? On the positive side, I really enjoyed the evening. ?I loved the venue and the novelty value; I loved the attention to detail that Kerstin has put into the tableware, from the "mapkins", to the plates printed with a bird's eye view of the River Thames and a relief map of London, to the paper flowers made of maps. The food was of a high standard throughout; I simply adored the canap?s and starter; ?and I like the concept of dining, then chatting ofer a glass of wine while enjoying some live entertainment. On the negative side, I remain baffled and slightly disappointed at the incomplete Worldscape table - I do hope they have a chance to assemble it fully before it is broken down and auctioned off on the final night of the Global Feast. I also don't know why it was left until the dessert course to turn on the under-table lights - these instantly gave the room an other-worldly and intimate atmosphere. ?But mostly, it is a pity that the event was not better attended. ?On the night that I visited, the 80-seater table was barely half full, and by the time the entertainment started there were barely a dozen people left. ?Whether this is because of lack of advance promotion or because of the "Olympic ghost town effect" (Londoners avoiding their own city in droves after being put off by scaremongering about traffic/transport chaos), I have no idea. But it is a pity to see an enjoyable event which has obviously taken a huge collaborative effort to put together so under-appreciated. ?I do hope that as word spreads about positive dining experiences, the remaining sessions are better attended.

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The Global Feast runs every night until 13 August. ?Tickets cost ?55 (?65 on weekends) per person and include a welcome drink, canap?s, starter, main course, dessert and wine with your meal (after the meal, there is a cash bar available). Every evening will also include live entertainment themed to match the dinner. Book via the website.?

For another perspective on the evening, see Denise's post. A few extra photos are available in my Flickr album of the evening.?

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DISCLOSURE: ?I attended this evening as a guest of Visit Sweden - thank you very much for inviting me!

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Don't forget - I am hosting?Meeta's Monthly Mingle?this month and the theme is?A Taste of Yellow?to honour our friend and ellow-blogger Barbara Harris of?Winos and Foodies?who passed away last month after finally losing a long battle with cancer. ?In honour of her annual Taste of Yellow event which raised cancer awareness, we have decided to paint the food blogs yellow with dishes in every shade of yellow, and we hope you can join us! Feel free also to share memories and pictures of Barbara in your post if you wish. You have until 6 August to get your entries in -?click here for detalis of how to take part. ?

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The Home Improvement Tips You Need That Work | Comunicate de ...

There are a few electrical tasks that a non-expert can do around the home. One is replacing a light switch. After you turn off the electricity and remove the cover plate, detach the wires on the old switch and replace them in the same order on the new switch.

Choose two easy-to-remember days of the year to check and replace, if necessary, the batteries in your carbon monoxide and smoke detectors. New Year?s Day and the Fourth of July are ideal times to perform this task. You should also make sure that your fire extinguishers work and discuss your family?s exit strategy in the event of a fire.

When hiring a contractor to do home improvements for you, always shop around and look for the best price. Always get at least three estimates and check the references and previous projects done by the contractor. Many contractors take a lot of pride in what they do and they are more than willing to show you photos from previous projects or referrals from happy customers.

Refurbishing an unfinished basement floor can bring the space together while increasing the functionality of the basement. Family members and friends will want to go down there more than they did before and one can create a new area to entertain guests. Putting down a wood, carpet, or synthetic floor will really improve ones basement.

Looking to start a repair or renovation project in your home? Make sure you check out your local home improvement store for ideas and classes to learn how to do everything from replacing a pane of glass to cutting and laying tile. Most of the huge home improvement stores offer a list of free classes available along with several times to catch the class. Bring a notebook and digital camera to record the lessons step-by-step and as an added benefit, most of the classes are conducted by store personnel who are happy to give further assistance once you dig into your project.

Renovate your home to allow for the use of more energy-efficient and natural lighting. This is an easy way to reduce your electric bill while also helping to save the environment. Compact fluorescent bulbs will last longer, use less energy, and provide a more comfortable lighting than incandescents. It is easy to replace the bulbs in your home with these.

Perpetually closed doors can make a hallway or corridor appear uninviting and uncomfortably narrow. Replace your solid door with a French door, which has a series of clear glass panels framed by wood. If you are concerned with privacy, opt for translucent glass or an adhesive to give the glass a ?frosted? look. Home Depot and Lowe?s carry adhesive window films for under twenty dollars.

Upgrade your thermostat to a programmable model designed to regulate temperature based on occupancy to make a comfortable improvement to your home. These easy to install thermometers allow you to set the temperature differently throughout the day based on preference and occupancy. For example, you can reduce the heat during the day when the home is empty or outside temperatures increase.

Do-it-yourself hardwood floor installation is especially tempting for homeowners who want to save money by tackling the project on their own. This is fine for most faux-wood kits but if you are using actual wood that must be sanded first, it may be best to hire a professional to handle the sanding. Real wood is quite expensive, and even the smallest sanding goof can ruin the flooring.

If you live in an apartment, then you may believe that there is nothing you can do to improve the value of where you live. If you are the owner of the apartment, this is not true. There are many floorplans that you can use to easily add value to your apartment.

To save on energy costs, consider adding a series of small fluorescent lighting fixtures under your cabinetry. These lights consume less energy than your overhead light and can cast a glowing light on the counter surface that is ideal for preparing food or illuminating a richly colored counter top or decorative back splash area.

If your home is very functional add more living area. Think about a living room, a den or a room for your children to play in. This will make living in your home much more pleasant and also add value to your home. You should do this once you have the money to spend on home improvement projects.

As you can see, home improvement can be very easy. With the tips above, you can accomplish the task of turning your home into your private sanctuary, a place you are proud to call home. What are you waiting for? Go ahead and start that home improvement project you?ve been thinking about.

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Bobby Jindal?s Science Problem

What did Jindal do to produce a hornet?s nest of ?mad scientists,? as Times-Picayune writer James Gill described them? He signed into law, in Gill?s words, the ?Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), which is named for what it is designed to destroy.? The act allows ?supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials? to be brought into classrooms to support the ?open and objective discussion? of certain ?scientific theories,? including, of course, evolution. As educators who have heard such coded language before quickly realized, the act was intended to promote creationism as science. In April, Kevin Carman, dean of the College of Science at Louisiana State University, testified before the Louisiana Senate?s Education Committee that two top scientists had rejected offers to come to LSU because of the LSEA, and the school may lose more scientists in the future.

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OS X Mountain Lion downloaded 3 million times in 4 days

Apple's brand new desktop operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, was downloaded over 3 million times in the first 4 days since it launched last Wednesday morning, July 25. Apple reports . According to Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, that makes it Apple's most successful OS X launch ever:

Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever.

Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of OS X, and like Lion before it, focuses on taking iOS in general, and iPad in particular features "back to the Mac". The two operating system remain built on the same foundation but serve widely different purposes -- to use Steve Jobs' analogy, OS X is the truck where iOS is the car. Mountain Lion continues Apple's drive to make the car as nicely appointed as possible, with as many iOS-style amenities as possible, so that iOS users find the Mac just as accessible as the iPad.

That's the key to getting hundreds of millions of Apple mobile users to consider the Mac the next time they buy a computer. That's the democratization that drove the iPad, and that's now driving the Mac with Mountain Lion, Apple's ad campaigns with Genius commercials, and likely most of what else we'll see from them going forward.

Were you one of the 3 million who downloaded OS X Mountain Lion so far?

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The Algebra of Snow: An Interview with Writer Ginger Moran

Ginger Moran?s debut novel, The Algebra of Snow: A Bedtime Story for My Mother, is an intelligent, metaphorical, and beautifully written novel of decent and rebirth?a story centering around the relocation of self and a revisiting, decoding and scrutinizing of the past. Moran?s protagonist, Amelia, is a mathematician who attempts to apply the laws and solutions of mathematics to the thorny problems of life and in the end questions, ?I wonder not for the first time in my life how any of our instincts survive self consciousness? (131). Moran?s prose is precise but never terse?the beauty of her language flows, the imagery springing alive from her words.

The reader follows Amelia into her icy decent into winter and ever-deepening solitude, her cabin becoming a second skin. The tone of the novel, an encapsulation in snow. Amelia is an observer of her own life, serving as witness with a detachment that is visceral yet distant.

Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo: The story flows as a descent into dream state?a sinking into winter, seclusion and solitude. Did you plot the book into this introspective spiral or did it evolve as such?

Ginger Moran: This novel was more a matter of spelunking than anything else. I?d written a short story by the same name that was a story that kept drawing me back. When I was in graduate school at the University of Houston creative writing program, I did an independent study on the transformation process Virginia Woolf went through when she turned her short story ?Mrs. Dalloway on Bond Street? into the novel Mrs. Dalloway. I could see from her journals and the essays she wrote at the time that what she did was to explore parts of the story that seemed like they had more material to them, a kind of going deeper under the surface of different parts of the story to see if there was anything there. She found, of course, an entire marriage, early courtship, social calendar, and despair in a high-born woman and parallel war trauma and suicidal despair in a man her main character never meets. When I was faced with the prospect of writing my dissertation I could have either tried to put together a collection of the short stories I?d written or do what I?d always wanted?write a novel. I have a theory that aspiring writers are what they read?if short stories, then a short story writer; novels, a novelist. I don?t really care for short stories and don?t naturally gravitate toward the intense, lyric sentence structure or overall form that they require. So I decided that was as good a time as any to try out Woolf?s technique. What happened was I used the established short story structure as my overall structure?it starts with Labor Day and ends with Beltane, too. But there were miles of caves underneath?the miscarriage, for one, most of the hallucinogenic moments, the whole fantasy of the dark man.

MCD: Amelia remarks that algebra ?is the most refined form of what mathematics is: a system for moving symbols across a page.? For her, math means locating solutions and she attempts to apply math problem-solving to the problems of her life. Why did you choose math as Amelia?s means of developing an understanding of her life and its meaning?

GM: I?m very skeptical of writers who say that something ?came? to them?that they have no idea why they did what they did in a story. That said, I honestly don?t know why Amelia had to be a mathematician. I am awful at math?it amounts to a real disability. I did do well in algebra in high school, though, and I think it was because equations are something like sentences, and I found the presence of letters comforting. I also am very skeptical of the workshop saw that you must ?write what you know.? I have a firm belief that it is okay?even great?to write what you don?t know. What is fiction, after all, if not something invented? So when Amelia was turning out to be an algebra professor, I let her have her take the bit in her teeth?or chalk to the chalkboard?and go. I did sit through a lot of college algebra classes, read a lot of books, and had a mathematician on my dissertation committee who read it as I wrote it and corrected me when I was off. I was studying a lot of high level literary criticism at the time. I won?t attempt to recapture my thoughts now, but a lot of high level theoretical scientific and philosophical theory starts to overlap at a certain point, so I mostly used those theories and tried shifting them into math, then got them checked out by the mathematics professor. I?ve had one person say that algebra is a way of finding what is missing and that certainly is the case in the book. Amelia is, throughout, solving for the x of her mother?s absence in her life.

MCD: The book is subtitled ?A Bedtime Story for My Mother??the stories she tells her mother seem to revolve around a means of refining and retuning and finding herself. Do you think this kind of deep introspection is necessary in returning to the source of ourselves?

GM: I do think that my mother was, as probably many mothers are, the omphalos, the beginning of my self and thus at the very center. Amelia has gotten off-track and is smart enough to know it. So she does follows that siren call back to the beginning. I know it?s a largely psychoanalytic approach, without the analyst, and thus rather hazardous, but I?ve had in affirmed by many mathematicians and their friends and family members that they truly are extremists and will follow things all the way down or out, no matter the risks. For Amelia to get back to where things went wrong for her?which she finds preceded even her mother?s death when she was a child, she has to go back to the beginnings of her self, when she failed to individuate from her mother, thus making the mother?s death not only tragic but catastrophic to Amelia?s development. To go back that far is to risk annihilation.

MCD: The book brings forth the idea of the tentativeness of the belief in knowing oneself fully and the realization that one is not in possession of that knowledge at all. The sense of isolation and disorientation puts me in mind of Atwood?s Surfacing. Does Amelia?s journey represent a larger contemporary tension and anxiety or is her experience entirely personal?

GM: I am so honored that you would mention Surfacing in connection with Algebra. That book was for me, as probably for so many of us who came of age in the second wave of feminism, an absolutely crucial text. Along with Doris Lessing?s The Golden Notebook, Surfacing was a sort of guide book to identity for me, both as a woman and as a writer. The willingness?even the need?to go into madness to find the roots of self seemed so true to me then and still does. I like to think of Algebra as a post-modern descendant of these great books. The need to find the real self I think can remain, even for a career-driven, already profoundly self-sufficient woman who doesn?t seem to lack confidence or belief in herself.

MCD: There is something of a feeling of self-indulgence in Amelia?s experience. Does this speak again to a wider sense of the modern obsession with self-scrutiny or more one of reflection with the intent of locating truth and meaning?

GM: I agree that this book has an element of self-indulgence to it. I would say that the exploration of self, the establishing of a good knowledge of and connection to the authentic self, is crucial to authentic connections to others and is, thus, both crucial and political. I would also have to confess that I had such anxiety about writing a novel when I launched this project?I am so madly in love with great novels and so in awe of the beauty and power of, say, any of Thomas Hardy?s novels?that I was afraid to have more than one character, essentially. Of course, that turned out to be its own risk and hazard, as it?s very hard to write a one-person novel where practically nothing happens! I?ve written two other novels since then and they both have healthy numbers of characters and one is a mystery and the other is a thriller, so I?ve learned how to get more people on the stage and have them do things since then!

MCD: In the end, Amelia imagines the consequences of her mother having lived and concluding that she is better off for her mother?s death. Do you see this as a rebirth of sorts for Amelia or did you intend something different?

GM: When I re-read Algebra I keep thinking, why didn?t I end it there, or there, or there? The endings seem to pile up, like in The Lord of the Rings. Stop, already! But I had to keep going with the spelunking, I think, and there was always another layer. Amelia is so caught in the story of her mother?s death when Amelia was young that she failed to imagine what her life might have been like with her mother there. And her mother was so attached to Amelia that she has to excise that?to free her mother, in a sense, let her go. Amelia has always felt that she betrayed her mother in her own life?she has lived such a masculine one and her mother was so feminine. It is a radical move for her to free her mother, and then to free herself from her story about her mother?to grant them both autonomy?and it runs the risk of letting her loose in the universe, like an astronaut cut loose from the tether to the mother ship. What she finds is so primitive, so wild, so fragile, and so driven by other forces, it?s almost inarticulate.

A teacher, published writer and single mom of two boys, Ginger Moran?s areas of expertise are in fiction and creative nonfiction writing, editing, and creative survival. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston in Literature and Creative Writing and Bachelor?s and Master?s degrees in English from the University of Virginia. She has published in Salon.com, Oxford American, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Feminist Studies among other journals and magazines. Her first novel, The Algebra of Snow, was nominated for a Pushcart Editor?s Choice Award and was published in the spring of 2012. She edits the University of Virginia Women?s Center magazine, Iris, and serves as the Associate Director. She is the author of three novels, one essay collection, and numerous articles both journalistic and scholarly.

Source: http://www.hercircleezine.com/2012/08/01/the-algebra-of-snow-an-interview-with-writer-ginger-moran/

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