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 Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books. She is an editor and writer for a health care organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was an editor for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine prior to that. Her work has also appeared in the Kalamazoo Guide, Greater Guide of Southwest Michigan, Southwest Michigan Living, Kalamazoo Gazette, County Wide News, Encore, Welcome Home, and Parade of Homes magazines, and the Latvian newspaper Laiks. She has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. In September 1999, a literary program featuring her work took place in Jelgava and Ventspils, Latvia. Her work also appears on many ezines - including Xelas Magazine, Lagos Literary Journal, Boston Literary Magazine, Outsider Ink, Cezanne's Carrot, Amsterdam Scriptum, The Sidewalk's End, Ghoti Fish, Menda City Review, Megaera Magazine, T-Zero, Fiction Attic, Saucy Vox, Ash Canyon Review, ThothWeb, Flash Me Magazine, Spoiled Ink, 63 Channels, Her Circle Ezine, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, The Redbridge Review, River Walk Journal, Flashquake, milk magazine, The Surface, BookCrossing, Serene Light, Word Riot, Burning Word, The Moon, insolent rudder, Bobbing Around, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, QuietPoly Writer's Magazine, Midwest Book Review, and others. Her poetry appears in the literary anthology, Persistence of Dreams, compiled by Redbridge Review.
Zinta is the recipient of the J. Jaunsudrabins Latvian Literary Award, the Erik Raisters Young Latvian Writer's Award, the Goppers Fund Latvian Literary Award. She has won two prizes in both the short story and poetry categories in the Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards 2000, and again First Prize in Poetry in the 2005 Kalamazoo Community Literary Awards. Zinta received a Merit Award in 2005 for her work in communications and media relations.
Zinta is also one of a team of editors at the literary ezine, insolent rudder. She is poetry editor for Her Circle Ezine, founder and editor-in-chief of the literary ezine, The Smoking Poet. She is a member of the Kalamazoo Arts Council.
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MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Zinta Aistars has a BA in English with a concentration on creative writing (summa cum laude) from University of Michigan. She holds dual citizenship in both Latvia and the United States.
- Publications include three books in the Latvian language:
Mala Kausa - collection of poetry
Ievainots Zelts - collection of short stories and a novella
Olina - a children's book - Contact Zinta! For freelance work in education, travel, nature essays, book reviews, poetry, profiles, and much more. Be sure to visit The Smoking Poet and check out the submission guidelines.
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MY NEWS:
Visit Zinta's site at www.zintaaistars.com for always updated news.
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MY RESIDENCE INFO:
City: Kalamazoo
State/Country: Michigan, USA
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BOOKS PUBLISHED:
 MALA KAUSA - Collection of poetry in the Latvian language, illustrated by Viestarts Aistars.
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 IEVAINOTS ZELTS - Collection of short stories and a novella in the Latvian language. Illustrated by Viestarts Aistars. Awarded the J. Jaunsudrabins Prize for Literature.
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