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Marlena Evangeline spent her early years in the orange fresh groves of early California, between Los Angeles and the Palm Springs desert, in the town of Redlands where she viewed a changing world through the lens of an imaginative mind. Later, after many years in Santa Cruz, California, and then, after raising her daughter in the small town of Wilson, Wyoming, she studied at California State University, San Bernardino, where she earned a M. A. in composition and literary theory; later she attended the Writers Workshop at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she earned an M.F.A. in Fiction.
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Along with poetry, fiction, essays and non-fiction, Evangeline has written several screenplays . . . among them an adaptation of the novel. Her poetry has been published in The Pacific Review and Poetry Motel.