She then joined the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1977. She graduated summa cum laude (as well as Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi) with a degree in English in 1973, followed by two semesters as a Fulbright scholar at Universität Tübingen in Germany. In 1970 she was invited to the White House as a Presidential Scholar, one of the hundred most outstanding high school graduates in the United States that year, before attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio as a National Achievement Scholar. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first Black research chemist who, in the early 1950s, broke the race barrier in the tire industry. In 1999 she was reappointed Special Consultant in Poetry for 1999/2000, the Library of Congress's bicentennial year, and in 2004 Virginia governor Mark Warner appointed her as Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a two year position. In 1993 Rita Dove was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, making her the youngest person - and the first African-American - to receive this highest official honor in American poetry.
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Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to-and was forced to leave behind-when she was a teenager. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. 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The Disappearing Act! (Minus the exclamation point I’m just super excited to share it all with you.) What is the title of the third novel in The Vanishing Girl series? If Amazon picks up the novel, then it will likely hit shelves before then. The Decaying Empire comes out April 21, 2015, so if I self-publish, the third novel will hit shelves in late fall 2016. Essentially, if Amazon does not offer me a contract for the third book in the series, I have to wait 18 months after The Decaying Empire hits shelves before I’m allowed to publish the third novel. When will the final book in The Vanishing Girl trilogy come out? So if you were curious about shifters, witches, cambions, and other strange creatures, I’ll have more books coming your way! I’ve also been toying with the idea of potentially writing another book from Gabrielle’s point of view at some point in the future, but don’t expect any progress on this front for another couple years! 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