Zenia

------I have always hated writing these things. I never know what to say. What exactly does one want to read about? Should I start at the beginning and work my way forward or start at the moment and work back to birth? Well I guess birth is the easiest way to start. My name is Zenia and I was born the summer of 1975 in the city of Fresno. I'm the oldest of five children and have two brother and two sisters. I'm from as typical a family as you get on the bad side of town; a single parent home. -----My whole life was in preparation of college. As soon as I was old enough to know what it was, I knew I was going to go. And so I did. I graduated last year from Davis with a BA in English. I spent the rest of the time after school, traveling, working, trying to figure out what to do next. I got to see Europe, see all the great works, the cities that seem to have existed forever. I decided that I really missed school and so I came back for my Masters. And no, before you wonder, I do not want to teach. Don't get me wrong, it's a noble profession. I'm not a noble person. What my passion is, what I really want to do, is write. Do you know the look I get when I tell people that I want to be a writer? Their eyes sort of glaze over for a moment, then they focus on me, smile politely, and say, "How nice." I'd rather they tell me I'm nuts and to get a real job than lie. They're not fooling anyone, least of all me. I mean, my mom's okay with it, why should anyone else freak out. All right, so my mom doesn't tell people that I'm a writer but then she doesn't tell people my brother wants to go into the Marines when he graduates from high school either. -----Well, I think that's it. It's not an in depth look into my life. But do you really want to know about the imaginary friend I had as a child or that I got teased a lot in elementary school? Those sorts of things make better reading in psychology books than a "Me" paper.

Zenia's paper on Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Zenia's paper on Sheri Tepper's A Gate To Woman's Country

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