Eve RifkahEve Rifkah grew up in Dorchester, MA when the scent of chocolate filled the air on cloudy days. Although Rifkah never spent time in foster care as did her Aunt Corinne, portrayed in Scar Tissue; she often wished she could be adopted. At 19 Rifkah droped out of college to have a child and a brief marriage. At 50 she married again and continued her formal education to earn a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. After a lifetime of blue collar jobs this entitled her to work as an adjunct professor until teaching positions vanished. She now calls herself retired as it sounds better then unemployed. Rifkah loves history and doing research hence, her first book Outcasts the Penikese Leper Hospital 1905-1921 (Little Pear Press, 2010) documents the lives and times of a barely known leper colony off the coast of Massachusetts. Her second book Dear Suzanne (WordTech Communications, 2010), is on the life of model and artist Suzanne Valadon, 1865-1938. Eve Rifkah was co-founder of Poetry Oasis, Inc. (1998-2012), a non-profit poetry association dedicated to education and promoting local poets. She was founder, editor and chief cook and bottle-washer of the literary magazine DINER (2001-2007). Rifkah is also a quilt maker and fabric artist. She lives in Worcester, MA with her husband and cat. Read More Read Less