Hometown: Colombia
Year in School: Senior
Major: English

Languages Speak/Read/Write: English, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese (a little bit)

Favorite Books: To the Lighthouse, Anna Karenina, The Waves, The Years, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mrs. Dalloway, Don Quixote, Fuzzy Logic: A Get Fuzzy Collection
Favorite Quotes: "I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
"Though I have the body of a woman, I have the stomach of a king." - Elizabeth I
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - Wilhelm Stekel
Dream Job/Career: Professional piñata whackist, Korean ninja panda

1985 - Lina is born
1986 - Lina is kidnapped by a drug-dealing gang of rabbid squirrels
1990 - Lina's parents realize she is missing
1992 - She is accidetally rescued by a cop posing as an acorn
1997 - The movie Titanic is released and Lina decides to grow up to be an iceberg
1999 - Lina travels to Asia to study Icebergism
2001 - She returns home having failed in all her courses but expertly trained in the ancient art of hopscotch
2002 - She reestablishes her bonds with her estranged foster squirrel parents
2003 - Lina is sent to the USA to avoid arrest for acorn smuggling (they hid them IN the drugs!)
2004 - She meets a brilliant young writer with a promising future and becomes engaged to him
2005 - They take a cruise through the Caribbean; Lina sinks the ship and hopscotches her way through the debris; the writer dies
2006 - Inscape publishes the young writer's material under Lina's name

Lina is Mormon by birth, Catholic by culture and violent by choice. She is an English major, speaks three and a half languages, sleep walks, crawls under tables when depressed, listens to questionable music and watches zombie films. She traveled to Italy last winter to finish her novel and finally add the artistic part to her self-proclaimed title of starving artist. When asked to describe her literary genealogy, she replied, "Virginia Woolf is my mother, G. Garcia Marquez my father and Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky my crazy alcoholic uncles."