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Erin Hart

Erin Hart is a Minnesota theater critic and former administrator at the Minnesota State Arts Board. A lifelong interest in Irish traditional music led her to cofound Minnesota's Irish Music and Dance Association. A theater major from St. Olaf College,... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
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By Erin Hart - January 19, 2010
Hardcover copies of FALSE MERMAID are supposed to be arriving in just over a week, and I'm starting to get a little giddy. I'm trying to go back to all the images that helped shape the story, to begin putting together the multimedia presentation that will resemble the slide show that's constantly playing in my head: a leaf-littered riverbank, scullers on still water, the polychromed ceiling of a library reading room, an abandoned village, craggy cliffs and seabirds and curious seals. These are all the pictures in my head as I think about FALSE MERMAID, and that I hope to conjure in the reader's imagination.