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Bonnie Lee Black earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University – Los Angeles in June 2007. An honors graduate of Columbia University, New York (BA, Lit./Writing, 1979), she has been a professional writer and editor for nearly 30 years and an educator in the U.S. and overseas for over 15 years. In addition to the recently released How to Cook a Crocodile, Bonnie is the author of the memoir Somewhere Child (Viking Press, NY, 1981), which was instrumental in the creation of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and is still featured on the reading lists of organizations designed to help parents of abducted children. For ten years (1986-96) she was a chef, caterer, and cooking instructor in Manhattan, during which time her freelance writing focused on food. In 1996, she joined the Peace Corps and served as a health and nutrition volunteer in Gabon, Central Africa. On her own, she subsequently (1998-2001) created an economic development project in Mali, West Africa, teaching Malian seamstresses how to make patchwork quilts. That story, Patchwork: A Memoir of Mali, the sequel to Crocodile, is written but not yet published.