katiaraina
katiaraina
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When I was a little girl, I wore a pioneer scarf around my neck and believed in communism. I also secretly believed in magic mirrors. Even as a shy little Soviet girl, I dreamed that across the magic glass someplace there was another land, one of skyscrapers reaching into the clouds, and giant bridges of steel that hung from the sky.
I reached that land as a teen in 1993, when I stepped out of the JFK airport in New York City. I found my real home, met a man of my dreams, fell in love with the English language, moved into the Jersey suburbs, and got myself a beautiful, complicated American life. For a little while, I was a newspaper journalist and had quite an adventure chasing stories, keeping tabs on local officials, or just poking my nose everywhere it’d fit. Then I stayed home with my two children and learned how to write. After that, I started a whole new career teaching, and had THE best time with the next gen: reading, writing, learning, teaching, laughing, loving, dancing, singing, crying (let's be real, that was a part of it too). I taught in Camden, DC, Nashville, and now Seattle, from an alternative school to the most expensive private school in town. Now, living in my sixth state, I have come to realize my job need not be my identity.
When I look in the magic mirror today, the person looking back is a writer, a creative, a full-time resident of a fairy tale.
I am an author of Moonbeam-award winning novel CASTLE OF CONCRETE (Young Europe Books, Foreword Starred Review, 2019).
I am here to revel in the wonder, the oneness and the weirdness that is us.
And yes, I am working on the next thing.
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