Biographies
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| Liza Kaplan | Estella Soto | Kevin Biggers |
Liza Kaplanis a Los Angeles native. She attended The John Thomas Dye School and Harvard Westlake School, where she began her writing career, having had multiple plays produced in The Blank Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival. Liza graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006 with highest honors after attending as a Trustee Scholar. She received a BA in Playwriting and Creative Writing, wrote and produced four plays, was the president of the Women’s Theatre Organization, a member of the USC Dance Repertory company, and a contributing writer of Saturday Night Magazine. She currently works as Special Projects Editor at WhoWhatWear.com. In 2007, she created a writers’ workshop that meets weekly to discuss and read works of prose and poetry. Liza has wanted to be a writer ever since she was a little girl. She is thrilled to be able to launch this showcase of literary work with such talented and dedicated writers.
Estella Soto was born and raised in San Diego, California. The middle child of seven offspring scattered between various households nationwide, she is ¾ Mexican and startlingly pale skinned. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Southern California in 2006. She once kicked an ailing pigeon and was genuinely surprised by how guilty she afterwards felt. Her response was to kick it a second time; she still feels some degree of remorse. Estella recently left downtown Los Angeles to participate in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming where she is forced to answer the question, "Do you prefer to go by Stella or E-stella?" at least once, daily. As of yet, she has failed to come up with an appropriate answer.
Kevin Biggers graduated from University of Southern California in 2007. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Emily Ansara Baines collects fortune cookie fortunes, sings along with the radio, and loves the color yellow. In a past life she was a cat. When not writing, she's reading. When not reading, she's remembering with fond nostalgia her beloved home city of Los Angeles. Currently, Emily resides in Brooklyn while applying the finishing touches to her young adult novel Leonora Ashby Is Not A Witch, represented by Danielle Chiotti of Upstart Crow Literary. One day Emily will live in Paris and speak French while wearing a beret. Her favorite word is murmur.
Ernest Duque writes stories, poems, songs, and plays. At an early pre-literate age, he immersed himself in the brightly-colored panels of comic books, inserting his own words into the inscrutable bubbles hovering next to the heads of super heroes. He considers this the genesis of his writing life. He grew up in Northern California, and then went to college at the University of Southern California. He teaches English to elementary students.
Kevin Sheridan was born and raised in Los Angeles. He began acting professionally at the age of 15. In 2008, Kevin wrote, produced, and starred in his first feature film entitled LEAVING BARSTOW. He also cowrote a pilot that was recently bought by Fox Broadcasting Company. He only enjoys writing when no one is looking. He hopes to one day build a cabin in the woods and live off the fat of the land.
