Ria Hooks works as a writing tutor at St. Petersburg College, a community college in St. Petersburg, Florida. She had a haibun "Summer Sidewalks" published by the online journal Haibun Today in the Spring 2011 issue.
Rita lived in China for a year teaching English at Baoji Teachers College in Shaanxi Province, which provided the setting for "Eating Vinegar."
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