Heart's Blood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542748520)

Elizabeth Zinn Biography Elizabeth Zinn grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan. She attended the University of Paris as a Fulbright Scholar in classical saxophone, and enjoyed an academic career in music. During its 18-year existence her ensemble, The Sonora Quartet, was internationally acclaimed as one of the finest of its kind in the world. Their CD, Treasures, available on Amazon.com, is widely used as the model for classical saxophone quartet playing. Before retiring from academia, she spent eight years as Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the University of Arizona. Ms. Zinn has been privileged to study under a number of wonderful writers and teachers: while at the University of Michigan, G.B. Harrison was her professor of Shakespeare and Marvin Felheim taught her Romantic Literature. At the University of Arizona she studied under M. Scott Momaday and Joy Harjo, and was able to work intensively with the late Diane Freund, winner of the Pirate's Alley/Faulkner Prize, during the last year of Diane's life. As a fiction writer Ms. Zinn has now completed three novels. Two of them, Dancer and Heart's Blood, are set on the southwestern border and share some of the same characters. In its short story form, Dancer, won an Honorable Mention in Glimmertrain's 2010 Short Story Award for New Writers competition, placing it in the top 5% of over a thousand other works. Heart's Blood won Honorable Mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, placing it in the top 3% of entries. Her third novel, The Happiness Lottery, is set in Michigan, where she grew up. She has also authored a collection of short stories, a number of poems, and has finished a fourth novel, The End of the Music. Ms. Zinn lives and writes in a small town in the mountains of southern Arizona.