[Interview] Raven Starr
Emerging author, Raven Starr has been writing since she was 15 years old. This year, some of her poems are going to be featured in When Times Moves On (Anchor Books), a new poetry anthology. She is also publishing her first novella, The Vampire’s Embrace (TreePress.net) and a short e-book, Fantasy (Red Rose Publishing). In a recent interview, she spoke about her writing. In your teens, one of your plays was staged in New London, Connecticut. What was the play about? And, how did you come to write it? “The Wrong Choice” is about teens and drugs. It's about the loss that teenagers feel when one of their friends dies from an overdose. It came about when I was in the 9th grade and a friend of mine died from an overdose. One day he was in school with us, laughing and the next day he was gone. It was my very first experience with death. "The Wrong Choice" was how I coped with losing a friend. I was pleasantly surprised when my after-school program, The Drop-in ...