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May.09.2011
The helpful editors at Redroom helped me place an essay with AOL.com's website My Daily. The essay, How Dancing Tango Healed My Broken Heart, adapted from my memoir, "Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home." Thank You!
Here's an excerpt from it:
"When the time arrived for me to go to...
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Jan.28.2011
The Headlands Center for the Arts in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area is haunted. Artists have reported waking in the middle of the night to doctors performing surgery just over their beds, hearing the sounds of stomping in the studio above them (apparently a suicide took place in that room...
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Oct.01.2010
This October 16th & 17th, the state Capitol grounds in downtown Austin will be filled with authors, readers, and chefs and musicians in a weekend long extravaganza at the Texas Book Festival.
I’m super excited to be traveling to Austin for the event—not just for the Latin dancing scene,...
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Feb.15.2010
I Love the Pacific Northwest February 15, 2010 7:54 AM EditI'm having way more fun that a book tour is supposed to be. I got to catch up with some friends in Seattle and I'm definitely going back for Seattle Tango Magic in late July as...
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Feb.01.2010
Dean Olsher is the author of “From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords” (Scribner, June 2009), Olsher knows how words and emotions intersect into puzzles for the mind and the heart. He spent much of the last thirty years in public radio reporting on the arts and culture for...
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Feb.01.2010
Another judge of the heartbreak competition is Margo Howard. As the daughter of Ann Landers, she took up the family trade of dispensing advice for the lovelorn and confused for years as “Dear Prudence” in Slate.com and for NPR.In 2006, she left the Dear Prudence column to write as Dear Margo for...
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Feb.01.2010
I love, love, love Mortified. I first went to see my friend Hayley Downs read from her teenage journals about her experience becoming a born again Christian, going to a religious survival camp and killing a pig in the name of Jesus. In this episode, Leonard Hyman learns the mysteries of making out...
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Jan.27.2010
My own marriage was, in retrospect, based on a lot of bad decisions. But while I should cringe while reminiscing, I can’t help but be a little proud. Not that I married late in life, had a short, tumultuous union that ended with him having an affair and me going from salsa to tango. The horror of...
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Jan.22.2010
As Valentine's Day approaches, write about your tale of heartbreak in between 100-200 words. Restrain from a rant and using the guilty party's real name. (Though it's tempting.) Use a pronoun or just an initial. He or she will know who they are. Craft your brief story with a beginning,...
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Jan.06.2010
Next month I have two books being published. On February 9th, my memoir about having my heart broken and learning to dance,"Hold Me Tight and Tango Me Home" is being published by Algonquin Books.
On February 16th, Rizzoli is publishing a book of mine, "A Little Piece of Earth, How...
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About Maria
I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. I compiled and edited Cuba in Mind, an anthology of essays, poems, novel excerpts and short stories in English on Cuba, published by Random House's Vintage imprint in June 2004. I also compiled...
Causes Maria Finn Supports
CHEFS (Conquering Homelessness Through Education in Food Services)
Audubon Society