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Amelia Balkan Author

Amelia Balkan, 17, is a junior at Towson High School, in Towson, Maryland. She enjoys hanging out with her dog Bella and going to the beach. Evan Balkan has published seven books of nonfiction and three novels, as well as many essays and short stories. His screenplays have won numerous awards. He teaches writing at the Community College of Baltimore County and Johns Hopkins University and lives in Towson, Maryland. Alexandra Maxim is a talented, young Romanian artist. She studied in Iasi, Romania and she currently lives and works in the Canary Islands in Spain.