Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand

I'm a Yankee by birth who ventured west via Alabama (college) and Guatemala (Peace Corps); judging by my accent (a Southern drawl over a Spanish trill with a Phili edge) I don't fit in anywhere. Having grown up in a family of Irish/Italian immigrants who all speak loudly, at once, never on coordinating subjects, I subsequently talk fast and must work hard not to interrupt. But I can also whip up a mean tomato sauce from scratch and tell a damn good story. And, oh yeah...I can write like the devil.
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