About

Maria Alkmini is a recent graduate from Loyola University New Orleans, where she earned a B.A in English with a Concentration in Writing, with minors in Classical Studies and History.  Although she fell in love with New Orleans, she returned to Massachusetts soon after graduation.  She is not looking forward to the winters, but is thrilled at the chance to watch her favorite sports teams again--after all, you can take the girl out of Boston, but you can't remove the outrageous sports fan out of her.  Or however that particular saying goes.

Maria has previously worked at Loyola's Writing Across the Curriculum Lab, where she tutored students on the usage of proper grammar, and the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing; she has been a member of the fiction staff for ReVisions literary journal as a submissions reviewer, has interned at the internationally acclaimed Teen Ink Magazine, and is the Editor-in-Chief for NolaFreePress.  In the past, she has been published by Loyola's Student Historical Journal, NolaFreePress, Teen Ink, and Airplane Reading.

Maria currently divides her time between preparing for graduate school and working on her fiction manuscript, THE WRECKAGE OF THE SOUL, about a Marine who, after being honorably discharged from the military, is forced to reconcile his past and present, all the while learning how to live with PTSD.  She spends her days working at a local diner, where she people watches to her heart's content and gets free food.  When she leaves for grad school, she will greatly miss the free food.